Bukayo Saka and Son Heung-min may have wanted to avoid each other in derby week, but they were forced to sit together at a Burberry fashion show.

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Gunners & Spurs impressing this seasonLong-running rivalry set to be renewedStar turns mingling away from the pitchWHAT HAPPENED?

The Arsenal and Tottenham superstars are readying themselves for a clash between north London’s fiercest rivals at Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Both sides have been in fine form at the start of the 2023-24 campaign, with 13 points apiece collected from five fixtures.

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Saka and Son will be hoping to make the difference when returning to their day job, but they have been relaxing ahead of competitive action by taking in a visit to London Fashion Week. They attended the Burberry spring-summer 2024 show at Highbury Fields in Islington – which is very much Arsenal territory – and were seated alongside one another on the front row.

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Saka and Son did share a brief conversation, but looked a little awkward as cameras were turned away from the catwalk and in their direction. The pair were eventually split up when Crystal Palace playmaker Eberechi Eze – an England colleague of Saka – turned up and filled a seat between them.

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Son has been a Burberry ambassador since the summer of 2022 and has starred in several shoots for Daniel Lee – the fashion house’s creative director. The South Korean forward recently hit a Premier League hat-trick in a meeting with Burnley, while Saka has registered two goals through five top-flight appearances for Arsenal.