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Mon 01 Jan 2007Late starters Arsenal in seventh heavenArsenal - 2 Manchester Utd - 1:This Premiership season is baffling its audience with the finesse of a great illusionist. Manchester United, who looked for much of the day as if they had too much know-how for the opposition, were transformed into losers over the closing seven minutes.Elsewhere, of course, authoritative Chelsea have been turned into bumblers, but the deficit for them has at least been kept at six points thanks to Arsenal's stoppage-time winner.