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LAURA WOODS hilariously referred to herself as a ‘freak’ after predicting the result of every remaining Arsenal fixture.
The TNT host, alongside former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand, guessed the final points tally ahead of Spurs’ trip to Newcastle.
"You planned that." 
@laura_woodsy and @rioferdy5 predict the Premier League title run-in 
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https://twitter.com/footballontntArsenal currently side top of the Premier League, ahead of Liverpool on goal difference and a point above Manchester City in third.
Woods realised that she did not foresee any of three sides dropping a single point between now and the final day of the season.
That means, as things stands, Arsenal would be crowned Premier League champions for the first time in 20 years.
She said: ” Do you know what, I don’t think I saw City, Arsenal or Liverpool drop a point.
“Which means unless there is a swing Arsenal win the league.”
Ferdinand replied: “You planned that anyway because you are an Arsenal freak.”
Woods joked back: “I am. I’m just a freak in general, aren’t I?”
Yet, Ferdinand had a different vision.
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The former England international believes Arsenal will lose twice over the course of the run-in and are unlikely to finish the season as champions.
As was the case 12 months ago, Mikel Arteta’s side head into the final straight leading the way.
But face a testing schedule which is complicated further by their involvement in the Champions League.
Ferdinand chose Arsenal to suffer marginal defeats against his beloved United and their north London rivals Tottenham.
The TNT pundit predicted a huge swing, with City as champions for a fourth consecutive term, leaving Arsenal in second and Liverpool down to third.
Arsenal host Champions League chasing Aston Villa on Sunday in a huge clash that will determine their fate.
How Arteta made Arsenal horrible again, with Tony Pulis tactic and gentle star turned into Diego Costa-style hate figure
By Dave Kidd
BOTTLERS, chokers, shandy-drinking southern softies.
These were the charges levelled at Arsenal when they blew the title last season.
And even if the actual reason they failed was because William Saliba got injured and Rob Holding had to start, Mikel Arteta clearly took those accusations to heart.
If his team are not crowned champions next month, the Gunners boss has categorically ensured that they won’t go down being accused of nicey-niceyness.
Because, as well as being thrillingly entertaining and free-scoring when they want to be, this season’s Arsenal are also thoroughly horrible.
They are not here to make friends. They are not interested in being anybody’s second-favourite team.
And so, six days after stink-bombing the Etihad with a display of Mourinho-esque anti-football for a 0-0 draw, Arsenal turned up at the home of former bogey-team Brighton and s***housed their way to a thoroughly impressive 3-0 win.
How wonderful for the travelling Gooners to witness Ben White — against his former club — going down as if he’d taken a bullet to his neck when Brighton’s Pervis Estupinan brushed against him.
White is renowned as a gentle and decent bloke, intelligent enough to challenge the zeitgeist and claim there might be things in life other than football.
And yet suddenly he’s become some Diego Costa-style anti-hero hate figure, his wife goading the masses by posting social-media pictures of them playing a childish card game on a sun lounger after he’d refused an international call-up.
Because Arsenal are horrible again. Even Ben White is a villain.
And that might just be Arteta’s greatest triumph.
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