Arsenal 3-0 Lille: Mikel Arteta's side will face harder games than this but they are already beginning to look formidable in their Champions League quest, writes OLIVER HOLT

The death of Ken Friar was announced on Tuesday. A lad who was hired as a match-day messenger boy at Highbury when he was 11 years old in 1945 and rose to become the club secretary, managing director and Life President, Friar had as much claim as any man to be known as Mr Arsenal . And on Tuesday evening, the modern club that he helped to build, the club to which he devoted his life, showed exactly what it has become and the debt it owes him.