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When Leicester City dropped out of the Premier League last term, it brought an end to a decade of unparalleled success for the Foxes. Just seven years earlier they had won an almost unfathomable Premier League title under Claudio Ranieri, and in 2021 they lifted the FA Cup for the first and only time in their history. Jamie Vardy was there 10 years ago as an enormously gifted livewire, and now as a 37-year-old former England striker, he has helped fire them back to the top flight with 18 goals in all competitions.
First the North London derby, and then, on Monday, another meeting that could either go some way towards shaping the world to Arsenal’s benefit or indeed the other direction, which is the kind of major fork in the road to which the club has grown accustomed in the last two decades.