'It can't all come from the manager' - Keown on how Arsenal can become winners

Sunday's triumph complete Newcastle intends Arsenal will almost surely decorativeness 2nd successful nan Premier League for nan 3rd twelvemonth running, and of people group are asking really they mightiness return nan adjacent measurement and onshore a awesome trophy.

I've been location myself and, while it tin sometimes consciousness very easy erstwhile you are ever winning things, I cognize really difficult it is arsenic a subordinate erstwhile you support getting truthful adjacent without getting immoderate reward.

As good arsenic your ain disappointment, you person to woody pinch each nan sound astir what has gone incorrect - each nan punishment and gloom astir really you person either bottled it aliases your squad is missing an constituent to make you into winners.

That's what Mikel Arteta and his players are proceeding now, and my Arsenal squad had precisely nan aforesaid rumor erstwhile we vanished 2nd to Manchester United 3 seasons moving without winning a trophy betwixt 1998-99 and 2000-01.

Looking backmost now I don't consciousness immoderate shame successful that but, astatine nan time, it was nan toughest point to take.

Being nan bridesmaid truthful often is nan worst emotion successful shot and it takes a typical group to travel backmost from having that hap repeatedly, and win.

I was fortunate because I was portion of a typical group of players astatine Arsenal, but we still had to activity connected it.

In nan summertime of 2001, Arsene Wenger brought successful a scientist who said to america that we were 2nd champion because nan statistic proved we were.

We weren't very happy astir that, but past he told america that he did not judge that nan statistic were telling nan truth.

He looked astir nan dressing room and said we person sewage World Cup winners successful here, and you person each won trophies successful nan past. His connection was that location was much nether nan bonnet, we conscionable needed to find it.

It was a clever move by Wenger and nan parallels successful Arsenal's existent position intends it is thing Arteta could effort too, but it can't each travel from nan head - it is down to nan players to respond successful nan correct way

I retrieve being connected nan Millennium Stadium transportation aft we had conscionable mislaid nan 2001 FA Cup last to Liverpool and reasoning 'well this can't hap again', and it didn't.

We came backmost to Cardiff nan pursuing twelvemonth and hit Chelsea to triumph nan FA Cup then, a fewer days later, we went to Old Trafford and hit Manchester United to triumph nan Premier League too.

We did not make large changes to our squad that won thing successful 2001 to do nan Double nan pursuing season.

Sol Campbell arrived and Wenger told myself and Tony Adams that Sol would ever play and 1 of america would beryllium alongside him, but our only different awesome signing was Everton striker Francis Jeffers.

I don't deliberation this Arsenal squad needs an overhaul either, but nan mobility ever seems to travel backmost to what they request to do to triumph trophies aft finishing empty-handed again.

The reply is usually a caller subordinate successful a definite position, for illustration a centre-forward this summertime for example.

I do deliberation Arteta needs to fortify successful a fewer areas but I deliberation what they really request to beryllium successful is nan mindset I mentioned supra - so, a really beardown group that has sewage specified a burning desire to triumph that it hurts them to nan halfway erstwhile they don't.

What you want is to beryllium capable to look astir nan dressing room and cognize everyone is emotion nan aforesaid way, and that they will usage this disappointment arsenic substance too.

I had that emotion pinch Wenger's Arsenal, because I knew I was surrounded by group who, for illustration me, were not going to remainder until we sewage that glory.

That is really it has to beryllium for this Arsenal squad too. Like I say, it can't conscionable travel from nan head but that is simply a bully starting place, and Arteta decidedly provides it.

I wish I was a alert connected nan wall successful nan Arsenal dressing room astatine half-time connected Sunday because I deliberation a batch of nan quality betwixt their first and second-half capacity was down to nan benignant of information from nan head that I americium talking about.

It was nan aforesaid astatine Anfield past week, erstwhile they were 2-0 down to Liverpool astatine nan break and Arteta told them he was not accepting that level of performance. They were not down against Newcastle this clip but they could person been, and he deserves immoderate in installments for really they turned things astir again.

Like Wenger, Arteta has sewage his lieutenants - nan players he tin trust connected - and Declan Rice stepped up again connected Sunday. You could show he was short of afloat fittingness because he was blowing a spot but Arsenal needed him, and he delivered.

There was a spot of a cup last consciousness astir nan crippled because Champions League qualification was riding connected it for some teams and of people location was an separator to it, pinch Newcastle beating Arsenal 3 times this play already.

They needed to beryllium put to bed, really, and Arsenal did that successful nan 2nd half - moreover if nan crippled still had rather a tense ending.

I don't deliberation Arsenal fans were precisely celebrating 2nd spot astatine nan last whistle but it is still rather an accomplishment for them to get backmost into nan Champions League for a 3rd consecutive season, aft they were distant for six years.

When you see wherever Arsenal were erstwhile Arteta took complete successful 2019, I deliberation he has done an astonishing job.

Injuries person massively impacted them this season, but it still feels for illustration we person sewage our Arsenal backmost - they are connected nan correct path, and nan trophies he craves will follow.

Martin Keown was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.