Arsenal touched down in Australia this morning to start off their pre-seaosn tour.

The Gunners arrived at around 6.30am before making their way to their team hotel on the outskirts of the spectacular Circular Quay.

But there was not time to catch up on any sleep for boss Arsene Wenger and a handful of his squad, as they had to all quickly front up to the waiting media.

And our Arsenal writer Charles Watts, who has travelled all the way down under to cover the tour, was right there in amongst the action as Wenger, Per Mertesacker, Petr Cech and Laurent Koscielny answered questions.

They also posed for photographs as preparations stepped up ahead of this week's double header against Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers at the ANZ Stadium.

You can catch up with some of the highlights of today's press conference right here.