RAMSDALE: WE'LL FIGHT AND FIGHT UNTIL THE BITTER END

AARON RAMSDALE has insisted Arsenal will not give up on fighting for the Premier League title until the bitter end.

- JOHN CROSS

The Gunners keeper admitted Manchester City are the "benchmark" for every other team.

But he still expressed his disappointment that Arsenal did not compete enough at the Etihad on Wednesday.

City's thumping 4-1 win over the north Londoners has put the title firmly back in Pep Guardiola's hands and they are on course for their fifth crown in six years.

But Ramsdale said: "We're going to be disappointed now, but we haven't played nine months of Premier League football and played the way we wanted to play to give up with five games to go.

"If anything is going to happen in football it is going to be this league it is going to happen in. It might not do, but stranger things have happened in the Premier League.