Arsenal title to lose after second Man City slip of 2026 leaves Gunners six points clear

On a day of draws, it was Arsenal who ended up the big winners.

Manchester City’s baffling decision to approach the second half of their game against crisis-addled Chelsea with all the vim and vigour of Thomas Frank’s Tottenham Hotspur bit them on the bum at the last as Enzo Fernandez’s three-putt equaliser drew wild celebrations from the travelling fans but surely even bigger ones in north London.

There was always something puzzling about the sheer physics of how and why Arsenal’s lead at the top of the Premier League had ever been reduced to a mere two points.

It didn’t really feel like either they’d done enough wrong nor City enough right for it to be anything less than the eight or nine points that felt about right.

That…