'Arsene Wenger hated getting beat by Tony at Stoke - he just moaned all the time... psychologically, coming to the Britannia seemed too much for them': Tony Pulis and Mick McCarthy on battles with Arsenal and the return of the long throw

We meet in a cafe in north London, about half a mile away from the stadium where set-pieces and long throws are suddenly back in vogue. Have Arsenal really reinvented the wheel, then?

Tony Pulis grins and recognises the trap. ‘It's amazing, really, how things spin round isn’t it?’ he says. ‘Arsenal are playing a certain way so it’s OK because it’s Arsenal. When we were doing it at Stoke, it wasn’t always seen as OK.