Mikel Arteta has created his own issues at Arsenal
It may be wrong to brand it a deflection strategy. Because a strategy would imply something cold and calculated and a manager whose team have been accused of being too emotional was being too emotional himself.
Mikel Arteta competed with himself to repeat the words “embarrassed” and “disgrace” most as, with wild-eyed fury, he discussed Anthony Gordon’s winner for Newcastle. He said it would not have happened in Japan or China, displaying a knowledge of the Japanese and Chinese leagues he had hitherto concealed.
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