Ray Parlour will be thrilled if ’s bore their way to the top of the table on Sunday. That is the positive message from the former-Highbury favourite ahead of the North Londoners’ titanic early-season title trip to . The visitors start two points adrift of the champions, needing a win to overtake them at the summit.

And if that means assuming a safety-first approach, banking another clean sheet on the road, before snatching it on the counter, Parlour will have no complaints. Anthony Joshua will take on Daniel Dubois at Wembley on September 21 with the fight being broadcast on DAZN pay-per-view. DAZN is the home of all the major fights from the boxing world and From £9.

99 per month + £ For, much like last weekend when Arsenal emerged 1-0 victors at , points are more important than free-flowing displays in the battle to stay in touch with Pep Guardiola’s men. Parlour, who lifted three Premier Leagues under Arsene Wenger from 1998-2004, said: “Absolutely. If you win the title, no-one looks back at certain games and remembers they weren’t good.

“You are the champions. It doesn’t matter how you did it or how you got there. “I go back to my era and the Invincibles season, we had some really poor games, which we should have lost.

But we had this grit, this winning mentality to always get over the line. “Nobody cared about a poor game against Portsmouth or whoever. That's the beauty of football.

It’s always about results not always the performances.” Not that P.