Gunners last won successive league titles 91 years ago.

When Mikel Arteta was reminded in a recent interview that Arsenal are the reigning Premier League champions, he quickly stepped in.

“Attacking another Premier League,” was his correction. “That’s where we’re going.”

That is the target, but Arsenal’s own history shows just how difficult it is to achieve.

After winning the First Division in the 1934-35 season to complete a hat-trick of league titles, Arsenal have gone on to lift the top-flight crown ten more times.

On the previous nine occasions, however, the Gunners were unable to retain the title. Arteta and his squad are now trying to overturn 92 years of history.

As champions looking to build further, Arsenal spent a then British record £14,000 to bring in Bryn Jones in the summer of 1938.

Jones scored on his debut, but it turned into a frustrating campaign overall for the Gunners. Only Ted Drake managed to hit double figures in goals.

Having scored 77 goals in the title-winning season before, Arsenal managed only 55 this time as they toiled to a fifth-place finish.

Ten years later, another campaign as defending champions also ended with Arsenal finishing fifth.

The season came badly off track between November and the New Year, with Arsenal winning only one of eight matches in that spell.

Portsmouth claimed the first league title in their history and then demonstrated how it was done by retaining it the following year.

Mikel Arteta, look away.

Arsenal let in 73 goals across their 42 league matches, their poorest defensive return in 36 years. Six defeats in their first eight games set the tone, and the Gunners never recovered.

They did at least beat Blackpool to lift the Charity Shield.

Following a season in which they won the Double, Arsenal’s build-up was unsettled by the exit of influential coach Don Howe.

The club began the campaign slowly, which prompted the signing of Alan Ball from Everton for a then Football League record £200,000.

Results improved, but Arsenal still ended up fifth and six points behind the leaders. In the club’s first-ever European Cup campaign, they were knocked out by Ajax in the quarter-finals.

The Gunners were champions again after that remarkable victory over Liverpool at Anfield, when they snatched the title on the final day.

Arsenal were top of the table in November, but once more they found title defence difficult to sustain.

A run of seven away matches without a win between December and March saw them lose touch and eventually finish fourth, 17 points behind Liverpool.

Arsenal broke their transfer record in September 1991 by signing Ian Wright for £2.5million.

He scored 26 goals in all competitions and helped the Gunners finish as the clear top scorers in the First Division.

But the defence was much less reliable. Even a 16-match unbeaten run to close the season was not enough to bring Arsenal into serious title contention in the final weeks of the campaign.

Could Arsene Wenger finally end the club’s struggles as defending champions? No, although it was Arsenal’s strongest attempt since the Second World War.

It might have been even better. From December to May, Arsenal stayed unbeaten and won 15 of 19 matches.

They were top of the table in the closing weeks, but an away defeat to Leeds in the penultimate game opened the door for Manchester United to take the title by a single point.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s team also overcame Arsenal in an FA Cup semi-final replay on the way to completing the Treble.

Arsenal became the first team in 20 years to retain the FA Cup, but they could not do the same in the Premier League.

Patrick Vieira took over as captain following Tony Adams’ retirement, and Arsenal made a strong start, sitting top at the turn of the year.

At one point in early March they were eight points clear, but three draws in four matches in April — including one after leading Bolton 2-0 — proved expensive.

Arsenal beat Southampton in the FA Cup to end the season on a positive note, but they were again eliminated from the Champions League in the second group stage.

If any Arsenal side looked capable of winning back-to-back league titles, surely it was the Invincibles. Jose Mourinho had other ideas.

The unbeaten run stretched to 49 matches before a controversial defeat at Old Trafford triggered a sequence of just one win in six games.

Arsenal scored 15 more goals than any other side, but Chelsea’s formidable defence carried them comfortably to the title. Wenger’s side still finished the season strongly by beating United on penalties in the FA Cup.

That season marked the beginning of Arsenal’s long 22-year wait for another league title. Mikel Arteta and his players have now ended that drought by becoming champions — and next comes the challenge of ending an even longer wait.