Arteta on giving up on title: 'Over my dead body'

Mikel Arteta has said he would give up on Arsenal's title hopes "over my dead body" but added that his side will have to do something unprecedented in Premier League history to win it.

Arsenal suffered a devastating blow in their title campaign last weekend. Their surprise loss at home to West Ham coupled with Liverpool's win at Manchester City left them 11 points behind the Merseyside club.

When asked if he would concede the title, Arteta defiantly said: "Over my dead body.

"If not I will go home. Mathematically it is possible. You are there, you have to play every game, suddenly three days ago we could close a gap and you are like 'you are one-and-a-half games away.' It doesn't matter, we have to continue to go."

"The difficulty is higher than three days about but if you are going to win the Premier League you have to do something special. If you are going to win the Premier League with the circumstances we have you will probably have to do something that nobody else has done in the history of the Premier League."