Some Premier League teams look great from the moment they take to the field of play on the first day of the season. Others come together across the 10 months in takes to win the English Premier League.

The Arsenal team of 2001/02 was always going to be a threat, but in wresting the title away from Manchester United, they arguably paved the way for both a change of tactics and an alternative mentality forever after their success.

The season began with The Red Devils favourites to make it four in a row against The Gunners. Between 1996 and 2004, the only teams to win the English Premier League were Arsenal and United, and it looked like another toe-to-toe battle between the two teams. While that was mostly true, Liverpool would feature and eventually finish in second place in the league in what was a decent season for The Reds.

Arsenal had reacted to their third failed attempt in a row to stop United winning the league by bringing in defensive reinforcements and a ‘fox in the box’, who would turn out to be as much use as a fox in the henhouse instead. Francis Jeffers arrived with much fanfare for £10 million from Everton, but famously started just two league games. Instead, the trio of Sylvain Wiltord, Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp all starred in a multi-faceted front line.