Mikel thanks our supporters for playing their part

Mikel Arteta celebrates a goal against NewcastleMikel Arteta thanked our supporters for heeding his call to make Emirates Stadium as noisy as possible and help drive our players on to a 4-1 success against Newcastle United.

For the third league game in succession, we netted a hatful of goals, with an own goal followed by strikes from Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka and Jakub Kiwior seeing off the challenge of the Magpies and keeping us within striking distance of the league leaders.

But the boss felt that it wouldn't have been possible without the backing of the home crowd who greeted the players at the start of the game with a wall of noise and kept the levels up to roar our players onto a sixth…