Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta
WHERE to start after Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal were humiliated 5-0 by Manchester City last weekend?
Inept defending, ineffective attacking, creativity lacking, a failure to work hard, no coherence, no tactical plan, no hope. It was as painful a thrashing as I have experienced, as a fan or a journalist, in 40 years of watching Arsenal.
It was so bad that a colleague in the press box asked, only half-joking, if I needed to be accompanied to the toilets at the end to prevent me from self-immolating after what I had just witnessed.
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