Petr Cech was on the losing side at St James Park in April and says he knows that Rafa Benitez will ensure another difficult game.

Petr Cech “We knew Newcastle are playing to stay in the league and for them, it was a huge game. You can see that they had nothing to lose.”

Arsene Wenger: “Overall we were tested against a team with a lot of technical quality…”

Just over a year ago the home match against Chelsea saw (ironically) Demba Ba put through on goal and last man Luiz scythed him down, only for referee Mike Dean to somehow punish it with a yellow card, unbelievable.

It looks as though we can knock one ‘story’ that has never stopped running since Christmas, the ‘Tim Krul to Chelsea’ headline which has been used every day some place, since the first person made it up….