The main event of Sunday’s Prmier League finale is, of course, who wins the title between Manchester City and Arsenal. City will start off the day two points clear, but Arsenal have a fractionally better goal difference. If City win at home to West Ham, they are guaranteed an unprecedented fourth straight Premier League title.
Meanwhile, if Arsenal win at home to Everton, and City fail to beat the Hammers, the title will be heading to north London for the first time in 20 years. Should that happen, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta, who was Guardiola’s assistant at City for two title-winning campaigns between 2016 and 2019, said it would be one of his life’s greatest achievements. “It would be one of the best days of my life,” he said.
“It is a big dream I didn’t achieve as a player. If I can do it, especially with the people I work with everyday, it will be some day.” England’s top flight is the only one of Europe’s ‘big five’ domestic leagues where the championship race has gone down to the last weekend.
“The magic is already happening because this is what every football supporter wants and lives that it goes to the last game,” Arteta added. “The last minute of the Premier League at this level, the most beautiful league in the world by far, where you have two teams. This is what you want, this is why it’s the most competitive league in the world.
“The unpredictability is like a drug. You are still there, you still have to earn it and it’s uncerta.
