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Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal team will give Liverpool a guard of honor at the weekend after the Reds won the race for the Premier League title with four games to spare.

While it is a tradition for teams to give a guard of honor before the games that take place after the title is confirmed in England, there is no obligation.

Chelsea fans booed as their players did it for Liverpool at Stamford Bridge last weekend.

But Arsenal will line up at Anfield on Sunday and clap the Reds' players onto the field.

Had it decided against giving a guard of honor, it would have attracted plenty of criticism.

"It’s tradition," Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca said last week.

They won the Premier League, so they deserve it.

"In terms of the gap (between Chelsea and Liverpool), it is there, you can see this clearly.

Liverpool's players are given a guard of honor by Chelsea.

This has probably been the main reason why.

"And also in terms of experienced players that know how to win games and these kinds of things, I think they have something more compared to us."

Virgil van Dijk was asked by reporters after the Chelsea game what the guard of honor meant to him.
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