Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on their still being a long way to go in the Premier league title race and the fine margins ahead of their Premier League clash with West Ham
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00:00Just on the title race, you've seen Liverpool drop points in two of the last three games now,
00:06if you can beat West Ham it's a five-point gap ahead of their game against Manchester City,
00:12is there a growing belief from you and your players that you can come back and claim this title?
00:19Well we have to do our job and it's going to be a tough one tomorrow against West Ham and
00:25if we do that obviously we'll be looking at that game on Sunday but
00:30it's 13 games to go still, there's still a lot to play and you can see how difficult it is for
00:35everybody to win football matches so we really need to be there. I know you love watching those
00:40big games, will you be glued to your TV on Sunday and hoping your friend Pep can do you a favour?
00:45I'm glued to tomorrow's game, that's what I'm glued to and my full focus is just there.
00:50Just generally though when you do watch these other games, are you a good spectator?
00:56What does that mean?
00:57As in, do you just watch it and can you relax?
01:00No, relax no, especially when you are playing for these teams you obviously cannot relax,
01:05I relax watching games that don't interfere with our ability to win big trophies.
01:11This is the third season now that you've been involved and really involved in a title race,
01:18what experiences do you think you can draw from what's happened in the past two seasons
01:23to maybe get you over the line this time?
01:25The margins are so small and everything counts and we had numbers that any other Premier League
01:32title probably you could have won it and we didn't so that shows you the level and the
01:37difficulty of it but the fact that we have experienced it obviously helps because we
01:42know what it's going to take to do it.