Mikel Arteta

He brought in some of the club's expensive summer signings, well aware of the giant killings that had already seen Premier League sides like Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest crash out.

He was determined not to let Arsenal's reputation in the competition slip as they chase their first FA Cup in six years.

This is part of the history of this competition, and I've experienced it myself on both sides," he told TNT Sports.

There's a lot to play for.

It's not just about getting to the next round.

It's your reputation.

And the club's reputation.

That's a big one.

And you have to play with that mindset when you come to grounds like these.

I think the desire and the quality of the boys shot in this period, which is the most demanding one through the year, to do what they've done, big credit to them.

And as I said, coming out through that period in the position that we are, I think we have to be proud.

If anybody knows Gabi, he's an incredibly lovely guy.

And probably he didn't realise what happened.

I hope that Conor is well.

I will have a word with him now to understand that.

But probably he didn't recognise what happened.

His value to us is pretty priceless at the moment, to be honest.

The way he plays the game, the way he allows us to play our game because of the way he plays it and the qualities he has, the attributes he has, the type of person he is and that we love at the club and I think he pretty much epitomises that.

But what did you get up to that evening?

Actually the day after on the Saturday we were staying with a friend of ours and he lives fairly close to Brentford and he lives very close to QPR they're not kind of too far away from each other in West London so I ended up going to watch Queen's Park Rangers and Leicester at Loftus Road which was like yeah like a really cool experience and like the ground is like