Mikel Arteta and Arsenal can't have it both ways after what he said about Liverpool
Mikel Arteta is learning the hard way.
And if there were any suspicions that the Arsenal manager is still scarred by last season's Premier League heartbreak, then the ferocity at which he conducted his post-match media duties shortly after the Gunners' 1-0 defeat at St James' Park on Saturday night confirmed just that.
Of course, Arsenal's loss to Newcastle United wasn't without controversy as Anthony Gordon's second-half goal was the subject of an extensive VAR check for several potential infringements. However, Stuart Atwell's on-field decision was allowed to stand, subsequently inflicting a first Premier League defeat of the season on the Gunners.
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Ironically just weeks after Arteta insisted that Liverpool and other clubs in the Premier League needed to "understand" that "mistakes happen" in the wake of Luis Diaz's wrongly disallowed goal at Tottenham Hotspur, the Gunners boss is now sheepishly trying to remove the borders of football tribalism that he had made conscious effort to draw out only weeks ago.
Arsenal, now, find themselves in a similar situation to the one that Liverpool found themselves in the days and nights after September's 2-1 defeat at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. That loss occurred in bewildering circumstances, with the Reds wrongly seeing Diaz's 'goal' chalked off after an error-strewn VAR check by Darren England and Dan Cook at Stockley Park.
In the aftermath of such unprecedented events in North London, Liverpool welcomed the opportunity for the battle lines of football tribalism to be temporarily abolished in pursuit of holding the PGMOL and chief Howard Webb
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