TERRACE TALK: Arsenal - Sunday stroll demonstrates why both sides fell short

As beautiful as it was to hear Andrea Bocelli serenading the Foxes’ fans at the King Power on Saturday, their duly euphoric celebrations of this fairytale Premier League triumph made for particularly painful viewing, knowing full well that yesterday’s encounter at Man City should have been this season’s title decider.

While we might have witnessed a meeting of the two sides that, on paper at least, both contain the quality necessary to reign supreme, sadly there proved to be a lamentable absence of the sort of intensity and appetite for Sunday’s stroll in the sunshine, which ably demonstrated why both sides failed miserably to live up to our lofty expectations.

I’m certainly not moaning, since it was only a couple of weeks back that the Gunners already appeared doomed to suffer the ignominious fate of ending this season trailing in the wake of the Pochettino-inspired renaissance at White Hart Lane.