Back to the future for Gunners as meeting with old rivals ends one-nil to the Arsenal once more

The Gunners made sure the title race will go down to the final day thanks to victory at Old Trafford.

Arsenal's Leandro Trossard (centre) celebrates scoring their side's winner. 

TWENTY TWO years almost to the day that I sat in the same Old Trafford press box to report on Sylvain Wiltord’s goal securing the league and cup Double for Arsenal one of the greatest rivalries of the Premier League it sometimes felt like only the names on the shirts had been changed. The score certainly had not – a good old fashioned smash-and-grab one-nil to the Arsenal.

Man of the match that night in 2002 was Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour, fresh from a couple of nights celebrating scoring a goal in the weekend’s FA Cup Final win over Chelsea. "The Man United fixture was the first we always looked for,” Parlour told me when we caught up to discuss this match earlier in the week. "The North London derby against Tottenham was big but more for the fans. United was who we measured ourselves against. This one is huge this season too. They have to take the title race to the end of the season. Massive match."