MALICE AT THE PALACE?
Deadlocked with cuddly north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on 54 points but with two games in hand, Arsenal look to be in the box-seat to take fourth place and the place in Big Cup that comes with it next season. Look to be, except with the caveat they are Arsenal … albeit a version that has come a long way from the side that lost against Brentford on the opening night of the season. They went on to provoke much tittering among the punditocracy with defeats in their next two games, leaving them with a UK-at-Eurovision-esque “nul points” going into the season’s first international break.
