ROB DRAPER: Mikel Arteta might sometimes be more David Brent than Sir Alex Ferguson in the dressing room, but he won the tactical battle with veteran Antonio Conte as amazing Arsenal stormed to a statement 3-1 win in the North London derby

There’s nothing more captivating than idealism winning the day. Mikel Arteta is a young manager. He is schooled in the Pep Guardiola school that possession trumps all and that the team that plays the nicest football will ultimately win most games. To be fair, when you have the players Guardiola has, that is often a self-fulfilling philosophy.

But when you have the players Arteta has? There’s an Arsenal trope, which has been doing the rounds for about 15 years or so now and which roughly equates to the time Patrick Vieira left the club: Arsenal are pretty but rarely feared.