This season could be the year that Arsenal end their long wait for a Premier League title. The Gunners haven't won the league since 2004, and Mikel Arteta's side have emerged as potential surprise title contenders following an impressive start to the season, which has seen them win six of their first seven games.
Arsene Wenger, the Gunners manager when Arsenal last won the Premier League, believes his old club have a huge opportunity this season as there is no 'super-dominating team' in the division. Within that long period without a title, there have been huge disappointments and missed opportunities for Arsenal.
The Gunners missed a massive opportunity to win the league title in the 2015/16 season, where Leicester City won the division in one of the greatest shocks in modern football history. Leicester, a 5000/1 shot to win the league at the start of the season, finished a whole 10 points clear of Arsenal in second.
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Leicester led the way for practically the entire season, but Arsenal's win over the Foxes at the Emirates Stadium in February 2016 felt like a momentum-shifter in the title race. Danny Welbeck scored a stoppage-time goal to move Arsenal to within two points of Leicester, but they failed to truly challenge the eventual title winners for top spot.
That loss in north London proved to be Leicester's last defeat of the season, and former Foxes defender Robert Huth has revealed that Arsenal's celebrations after Welbeck's winner gave Claudio Ranieri's side extra motivation for the rest of the campaign.
"We obviously all saw Arsenal's celebrations after they beat us on that day, and I always think back to something Tony Pulis used to say to us at Stoke: don't over-celebrate in sport if the job isn't completely done, because it will always come back to bite you," Huth told Ladbrokes: Fanzone.
"You don't want to give any team an advantage, or any fuel. It's why you never hear Pep Guardiola or any of the other greats come out and say something like 'yeah we're going to beat these today'.
"So when you see something like that from Arsenal on that day, that over-celebrating just gives you an edge. And then we had that picture of them in the dressing room as our WhatsApp picture for a long, long time. I don't remember who put it in there but we had it there just to spur us on.
"It's not the main reason we went on to win the title, but it certainly helped us."
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