
“It’s very early,” Mikel Arteta told everyone who was willing to listen after Arsenal opened up a four-point lead at the Premier League summit on Sunday.
The Gunners boss will have little success dousing the growing flames of expectation after his two closest rivals for the title, in theory, both lost on the same weekend Arsenal battled out another miserly 1–0 win. However, there is some justification behind his caution.