So sweet for Pulis as his artisans put artists to the sword

IF A list of Premier League managers wanting to stick the knife into Arsenal’s title hopes had to form an orderly queue, Tony Pulis would have been all elbows and clambering over his peers to be at the front.

And Wenger will surely now be reflecting on six years of frustration and underachievement as his distant Premier League challenge was read the last rites by his arch-nemesis, in a clash of the aristocrats and the artisans.

After their 1-0 win over Stoke in February Arsenal were only a point behind Manchester United but now their hopes of salvaging something tangible from an excruciating campaign are finally over.