The Arsenal manager gave an in-depth interview to the Sports Journalist of the Year and Martin Samuel, of The Daily Mail, at Great Ormond Street Hospital this week.

"When Cesc Fabregas was 18, 19, I would play him in a 4-4-2 with Patrick Vieira and I saw it did not work. Then I had the decision to make."....“I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport.”....“If I went to Real Madrid tomorrow I would spend at all costs, but what I think is more important is to look at what you have at your own club and analyse how you can be successful.” Click here to see their fascinating discussion in full.

So much for the inevitable march of progress. As we come to the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the two sides rated by the bookmakers as the best in England raised the curtain on the new season by lining up against each other in variations of 4-4-2.

Chelsea, admittedly, tried to make it look as though they were still playing with a lone striker by fielding an anonymous Nicolas Anelka alongside Didier Drogba, but still, this was discernibly a diamond midfield. United's system was rather more fluid, with Wayne Rooney dropping off Dimitar Berbatov and Nani, on the left, given a more attacking brief than Park Ji-sung, who tucked in on the right, while keeping half an eye on Ashley Cole's forward darts.

Mezarkabul (Pentagram in Turkey) is a Turkish heavy metal/power metal band composed of Murat Ä°lkan, Hakan Utangaç, Metin Türkcan, Tarkan Gözübüyük, and Cenk Ãœnnü. It's noted to include some Oriental arrengements into their Power Metal sound, being they generally played by the guitars or sang by voice. Pentagram was formed in Ä°stanbul in 1986 by guitarist Hakan Utangaç and drummer Cenk Ãœnnü. By 1987, bassist Tarkan Gözübüyük had joined and they started doing live shows.

Their first release came in1990, with their self-itled  Pentagram album. By 1992, a second guitarist Demir Demirkan and vocalist Ogün Sanlısoy were added to the line-up. They released their sophomore album Trail Blazer in the same year and enjoyed a now rapidly-growing fanbase - both in Turkey and worldwide