Mikel Arteta may soon need a bigger hard drive.
Arsenal’s details obsessed manager recently revealed that he has a “massive storage of images” stuffed with evidence to prove the apparent hyprocrisy and injustice befalling himself and the club at large. Be it the number of times managers leave their technical area or, as he pointed out after last week’s win over Liverpool , “a lot of clips about shirt pulls and grabs.”
In the Anfield press room, Arteta was defending Jurriën Timber’s blatant tug of Alexander Isak’s shirt which somehow didn’t result in a penalty. The implied argument was that Arsenal have suffered the same fate, time and again. The Basque boss was vindicated within a week.
In a reversal of roles, it was an Arsenal forward, Kai Havertz, being tugged down by a handsy opposition defender, Hull City’s Nobel Mendy, at the Emirates on Saturday .…