Declan Rice gives Arsenal the steel to dethrone Man City - they have to be London's team of 2023
In London, 2023 will go down as the year of Arsenal's rise and Chelsea's fall; West Ham as a European champion; change at Tottenham; and stability at Brentford, Crystal Palace and Fulham.
Arsenal have the most compelling case as the capital's team of the year, likely to finish 2023 in the same position they started it: top of the Premier League.
In between, they were agonisingly leapfrogged by Manchester City when it really mattered, for few short weeks at the end of last season,'s side have already shown more than enough since to suggest the biggest trophies should come eventually.
