Mikel Arteta has spoken of his “love and respect” for Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City staff after being asked to clarify his comments on the club. It concluded a week of fall-out from Sunday’s ill-tempered 2-2 draw between City and Arsenal,

That sparked head-to-head scenes at the full-time whistle, with Erling Haaland, Bernardo Silva, Manuel Akanji, and the aforementioned Stones critical of the way Arsenal approached the game as a whole, particularly their execution of football’s ‘dark arts’.