WE’RE DONE
In the buildup to Arsenal’s trip to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday night, with his side trailing Liverpool by 11 points, Mikel Arteta was repeatedly prodded with metaphorical sticks by interrogators hoping he would publicly concede that what passed for the title race was over. It was no great surprise that he refused to do so, even if what passed for the title race was clearly over. “Mathematically, it’s possible,” he said of Arsenal’s Hollywood-actor-on-Ozempic slim chances of reeling in Liverpool … and that was before his team fell two further points behind Arne Slot’s side in the title race after failing to beat Nottingham Forest at the City Ground.
