The Ethan Nwaneri brings up a lot of online discourse about Mikel Arteta.
Football is full of sliding door moments and with different luck things could have been very different for Ethan, but maybe we wouldn’t have won the Premier League, maybe we would have. It’s all ifs and buts.
What we do know is Arteta made big decisions and delivered a Premier League title.
We have to accept in the reality of that, sometimes there are casualties.
🗣️ "With Pep [Guardiola] leaving Manchester City, we've got a chance of winning the Premier League."
Former Manchester United striker Andy Cole on Michael Carrick's chances of winning a Premier League title as United head coach 🔴
🚨🎙️ | Wayne Rooney on the controversial decisions in the UEFA Champions League Final:
🗣️ “People will celebrate PSG winning the Champions League, and fair enough, but deep down everybody knows Arsenal were on the wrong side of some shocking decisions.
That Madueke incident? If that happened to PSG, the referee points to the spot in two seconds.
You cannot convince me otherwise.
VAR was introduced to stop robberies in football, yet somehow Arsenal still got robbed on the biggest stage in club football.
And the worst part? By next week people will forget the decisions and only remember who lifted the trophy.
That’s football unfortunately.
I’ve seen finals decided by moments, but this one felt decided by fear from the officials. Nobody wanted to make the big call for Arsenal.
If Arsenal had gotten that penalty, the pressure changes completely. PSG panic. The momentum shifts. The entire story of the final could’ve changed.
But once again, Arsenal were expected to just accept it and move on quietly.”
Scary how Arteta has never regressed in either the Premier League or the Champions League. Every season has been a step forward
Whatever happens today, Arsenal will end the season having taken another step forward