GUNNERS URGED TO WRITE A NEW HISTORY

Emery wants Arsenal to continue fiery run following 10th consecutive home league victory

ester United, who played Wolves late yesterday, to bolster their chance of qualifying for the Champions League via a topfour finish.

It is the first time Arsenal have been as high as third place since April 2017, highlighting their improvement since Emery replaced Arsene Wenger at the end of last season.

Ramsey’s fifth goal of the season was only the Wales midfielder’s second since he signed a lucrative pre-contract agreement to join Juventus at the end of the current campaign.

But, while Ramsey won’t be part of Emery’s long-term plans, the future still looks bright for Arsenal, who recorded a 10th consecutive home league victory for the first time since December 1997 to May 1998.

Arsenal finished with 63 points in Wenger’s final season, but Emery has matched that tally with seven games to spare.

No wonder Arsenal fans celebrated an important win by taunting their spluttering north London rivals with chants of “are you watching Tottenham”.

“It’s a new history. We are creating our own way. Our target is very clear,” Emery said. “We have created a big atmosphere here. We are in a good moment, a good mentality with the players.

“We are improving and making progress, but we know it is difficult. Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester United are going to win a lot of games.”

Mesut Ozil’s relationship with Arsenal fans has been a little turbulent over the past season, but he went some way to rebuilding bridges with his post-match comments on Monday night.

Speaking after his man-of-thematch display against Newcastle, Ozil afforded himself a cheeky grin when reminded by the interviewer that they had overtaken rivals Tottenham.

Smiling after his impressive display, Ozil said: “Our aim is to get to the top four so of course we are happy we are in front of Tottenham. It is always competition with them but if we play like we play today, we want to win and take all the points to get top four by the end of the season.

“We are very happy. Our aim tonight was to take the three points, we played well and congratulations to the whole team. We are all very happy.”

Happy, too, were the Arsenal fans that picked up on Ozil’s grin when being reminded of Spurs’ demise.

One supporter stated: “Mesut just said he’s happy that we’re above Tottenham. He’s a Gooner. Proper Gooner.”

Another labelled the No 10 simply ‘King’ while one fan stated: “That grin from Ozil when the interviewer said now 3rd .... above Tottenham. He knows!”