Arsenal Have Not Won at Liverpool in 13 League Games, The Guardian Reports
Mikel Arteta described feeling helpless at Anfield during his Everton years, and The Guardian points to Arsenal's 1989 win as a reference point.
The Guardian reported that Arsenal have not won a league game at Liverpool in 13 matches, and that the Gunners' win in 1989 remains one of the club's greatest nights. The article by Ed Aarons, published October 30, 2026, carries a headline suggesting that Mikel Arteta can take inspiration from George Graham to expunge painful Anfield memories.
According to The Guardian, Arteta used the Spanish word bajar to describe what it felt like to be helpless at Anfield while playing for Everton in 2011. The report's summary does not complete the title of the Amazon programme in which he discussed the feeling, so that programme is not named in this account.
To explain the feeling, Arteta said, as The Guardian reported, that it is when a cyclist is going up and looks amazing, then in one kilometre goes "boom" and is struggling again. The newspaper's account presents the image as his own description of the sensation. The summary gives the quotation in the words reproduced above and does not indicate whether it has been edited.
The text available to The Federal Chronicle is a summary, and it does not include the remainder of the article. The details of the 13 league games and the date of the 1989 victory are therefore not set out in the material available to this newspaper. Where the full article may add context, this account does not supply it. Attribution throughout this report is to The Guardian, and no independent confirmation of the statements has been obtained.
The full report is available from The Guardian's article by Ed Aarons.
Sources: The Guardian: Arteta can take inspiration from George Graham to expunge painful Anfield memories.