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Prodigal sons: When Bukayo Saka scored the opening goal during the Uefa Champions League match between Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven, the team did not look like it had spent six seasons in the wilderness. Photo: Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images

Gunners are back with a bang

Is Kgosientsho Ramokgopa an undercover Gunner?

Undead: Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

A song and dance about nothing

Julius Malema is no Barry White, but the United Nations won’t stop him singing

Former public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba

Young Lions no longer roaring as ANC Youth League congress teeters

Former presidents were reinvited to the youth league congress after the ANC forked out money for their lunch

Preordained: Gabriel Jesus scores against Leeds. His early return after injury is somewhat miraculous. Photo: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

The second coming of Jesus for Arsenal’s Premier League hopes

A footballing three days and three nights in a cave don’t appear to have affected the striker’s performance

Cantankerous: Julis Malema argues with police at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. Photo: Emmanuel Croset/Getty Images

EFF marched but it was no Sri Lanka moment

Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals

Like a candle in the wind: Eskom has turned 100 but it’s lights are hardly blazing. Photo: Getty Images

Is reticent Ramaphosa ready to reshuffle?

DD the Cat, like André de Donker, has finally got his Don’t Come Monday – which both of them had been waiting for

Upsy-daisy! Arsenal’s Nicolas Pépé and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk in action last weekend. The Reds won 3-1. (Phil Noble/Reuters)

Derby holds up a mirror to mediocrity

Arsenal and Spurs are both stuck in the mud and which team beats the other has become arbitrary

Up for the challenge: Arsenal manager Unai Emery. (Hannah McKay/Reuters)

Will Unai Emery’s Europa League love affair conquer Chelsea?

With the pressure off Chelsea, thanks to their third-place finish, Arsenal need their manager to inspire a composed performance.

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero looks on after scoring his hat trick goal despite the efforts of Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno and Laurent Koscielny. (Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Aguero hat-trick sinks Arsenal, City close gap on Liverpool

Manchester City closed to within two points of Premier League leaders Liverpool thanks to Sergio Aguero’s hat-trick in a 3-1 win over Arsenal

‘Nothing is going to change my opinion of my team. I want to focus to win the game and give a good performance, knowing the quality of the Spurs side,’ says Pep Guardiola. (Carl Recine/Reuters)

Man City have leaders to catch Liverpool, says Guardiola

Pep Guardiola’s side goes into Sunday’s Premier League home match against Arsenal in third place, five points behind leaders Liverpool

Mesut Özil and Alexis Sanchez during their Arsenal days (David Price/Getty Images)

Sanchez, Özil cast to sideshow as buoyant Man Utd visit Arsenal

A year on from moving to Manchester United, Alexis Sanchez has become little more than an afterthought in the Red Devils’ revival

(John Silby/Reuters)

Emery finds it hard to put case for Gunners defence

Typically slack Fulham defending allowed an unmarked Granit Xhaka to score from Alex Iwobi’s measured cross after 25 minutes

Unai Emery believes Mohamed Salah is now among the world’s top five players. (Reuters)

Salah now in Emery’s top five after PSG snub

The Gunners boss will be in opposition to the Liverpool forward when his Arsenal side face the unbeaten Premier League leaders at Anfield on Saturday

Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri celebrates scoring their second goal (Phil Noble/Reuters)

Liverpool back on top as Shaqiri sinks United, Arsenal’s unbeaten run ends

Jürgen Klopp’s side made it six successive league victories thanks to Shaqiri’s late double

‘It will be a very difficult match for us because we are going to play against a good team in a good moment without having faced a backlog of matches because they are playing in the Europa League,’ said Mourinho. (Andrew Couldridge/Reuters)

Mourinho admits top four by end of year is improbable

The United manager says if some players performed better, they could stay in touch with the top four

Arsenal manager Unai Emery (John Sibley/Reuters)

Aubameyang winner extends Arsenal’s unbeaten run

Emery’s side took the lead through Jefferson Lerma’s bizarre own goal before Josh King equalised on the stroke of half-time at Dean Court on Sunday

‘Nothing is going to change my opinion of my team. I want to focus to win the game and give a good performance, knowing the quality of the Spurs side,’ says Pep Guardiola. (Carl Recine/Reuters)

Guardiola urges City to stay focused ahead of Spurs test

Since losing to Lyon in the Champions League in September, Guardiola’s side has gone on a seven-game unbeaten run in all competitions

From next season

Before visiting Rwanda, there are a few things Arsenal fans should know

The club’s new sleeve sponsor has an abysmal human rights record

Winner: Atlético Madrid players celebrate as they raise the Europa League trophy after the final against Marseille at Lyon. The club went from being in a near constant state of disarray to being a well-oiled machine.

Atlético a nuisance to their rivals

Diego Simeone has taken the club to new heights and the relentless coach is ready for La Liga

The Karoo and West Coast municipalities were previously declared disaster zones in 2016.

It is finally time for the Red She Devils

United said they had submitted an application to join the second tier of the Women’s Super League