The National’s Sport cover for the Monday, October 6 issue, featuring Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho as tempers momentarily flared on Sunday in the big Chelsea v Arsenal match.
Mourinho's Chelsea side ultimately came away the better of the two, thanks to goals from Eden Hazard on a first-half penalty and Diego Cost on a clean finish from a terrific pass from Cesc Fabregas in the second half.
Analysing Arsenal's deficiencies, Jonathan Wilson writes, "Arsenal, meanwhile, have become like some tragic hero of Greek myth, doomed eternally to enact the same ritual over and over again.
What does it mean any more to say that they need a player of dynamism and ball-winning capacity at the back of midfield?
Of course they do, they obviously do, and they have done since Patrick Vieira left nine years ago.
To say so again seems so manifest as to be pointless, like observing that fire is hot, and yet it remains true, and the lesson unlearned.”
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