Of all the subplots contained within Patrick Vieira's return to Arsenal on Monday, perhaps the most curious is this: The man trying to beat the Gunners is also a man trying to buy them.
The 45-year-old occupies a curious position given that he's now the manager of a Crystal Palace side attempting to win a Premier League game at Emirates Stadium for only the second time in 20 visits, while also remaining part of a consortium that had a £1.8 billion takeover bid rejected earlier this year. Spotify owner Daniel Ek was the front man, but within his inner circle were three club legends -- Vieira, Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp -- all of whom hail from an era Arsenal have struggled to recapture ever since the trio's playing careers ended in the mid- to late-2000s.