Mikel Arteta exclusive: ‘The moment I leave this door at Arsenal one day, I’ll look back and say we had good times’

The vista varies depending on who is framing Arsenal’s season. Would it be failure to have been perched on the Premier League summit for 248 days only to cede the title to Manchester City?

Or is it a triumph of process that a team who widely weren’t tipped for the top four forced Pep Guardiola’s machine into an unseen gear, marmalising all before them?

Perspective is a rare commodity in football, but Mikel Arteta…