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Arsenal fan Andy Murray has urged the Gunners to be “mentally strong” to end their long Premier League title drought.

The British No 1 lost four Grand Slam finals before winning the 2012 US Open final and then going on to win Wimbledon the following year.

Arsene Wenger's club have not won the title since 2004 – and last night's defeat to Swansea looks like condemning to another year without the biggest trophy in English football.

Murray, who will play for Great Britain in the Davis Cup starting tomorrow , said: “I obviously went through it for a number of years.

"It is not easy but the only way to do it is to keep working hard. If you don't work hard you are not going to get there.

"If you don't try to improve and if you stop believing. If you really believe in yourself then you are going to get there I think.

"Obviously you have to have the ability to do it as well. It is certainly not easy. Mentally it is challenging.

"I found that hard myself. But with the Davis Cup with us last year, it came up out of nowhere and kind of crept up on us a little bit but with the Slams every year I was getting close and it felt like it was going on for ever that I wasn't able to win one.

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"That was hard for me because people start questioning you. It is the same question coming up every time and you can find yourselves frustrated with that and you start doubting yourself and you start asking yourself the same question.

"So it's not easy – you need to be strong mentally and get the best help you can.”

Murray, whose grandfather Roy Erskine played for Hibs, added: “I think what has happened in the Premier League this year has been good to watch.

"A lot of the top teams have been struggling and as a football fan, it is exciting to see different teams up there challenging. You would expect the top teams to come through at the end of the season and be playing a little better than they are just now.

"But to see Leicester at the top of the table after 28 games and be favourites with the bookies to win is incredible. And I like seeing stories like that. And genuinely it is great.

"I hope that continues, that it is not so predictable what happens every single year though it would be nice if Arsenal could put a run together because it has been a tough few weeks for me and Dom (Inglot).”