Liverpool's Basque head coach Andoni Iraola will face former Antiguoko team-mates Xabi Alonso and then Mikel Arteta in quick succession Credit: Paul Currie / AFP

Premier League heavyweights Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea clash this week with an unlikely thread linking them — the men in charge all hail from the small Basque province of Gipuzkoa.

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