Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey holds off Wigan Athletic's James McCarthy during the Premier League encounter at the Emirates stadium.
Are you watching Tottenham? The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer. Everyone was watching, it was utterly pulsating and now Arsenal and, indeed, Tottenham Hotspur, know the drill for the final round of Premier League fixtures on Sunday.
Arsenal are back in the box seat for the final Champions League place, the only thing left to fight for in England's top division after Wigan were finally pressed into the third relegation spot, and Arsène Wenger will demand one last push. Win at Newcastle United and Tottenham's result at home to Sunderland will be rendered academic. Arsenal can almost touch their 16th consecutive qualification, although nothing is remotely settled.
This scoreline suggested a rout but it was nothing of the sort, with Wigan recovering from a slow start to equalise and go close to taking the lead through Arouna Kone in the second-half, which would have ratcheted up Arsenal nerves to fever pitch. But, inspired by Santi Cazorla and Theo Walcott, Wenger's players drew the sting and took Wigan apart with a flurry of three goals in eight minutes. There was brutal symmetry with the end of Wigan's eight-year top-flight association.
It was a sad sight at the stadium though.
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