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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta (third left) and staff during a training session at the Arsenal Training Centre yesterday
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Mikel Arteta has been receiving criticism in some quarters for his supposed negativity – but Arsenal reporter LAYTH YOUSIF insists the Gunners boss is on the right lines
by Layth Yousif in Norway
THE Arctic air is cool and crisp and lends a clarity to everything you survey in the pleasant northern Norwegian coastal town of Bodo.
The same could be applied to the razor-sharp focus Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has right now.
Fresh from the club’s momentous 3-2 victory over Liverpool at the weekend, the Gunners travelled to the Arctic Circle to take on Kjetil Knutsen’s Bodo/Glimt on their plastic pitch.
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