This week’s column is about ‘the Mandela effect’ of Arteta press conference quotes and the (in my view) seismic gap between what people seem to think he has said versus what he actually says (that I am too neurotic to let go of) and why it exists👇🏻🔴⚪️
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The man isn't a fool, it's just that he gets the lines from the broader press.
Unfortunately every so often it does permeate, even rage-bait uninformed garbage like that Wilson article.
Which is why I enjoy reading your columns so much 👏
The fact that even the well-read Wilson perpetuated an inaccurate characterization of MA is worrisome. And then Liew, in his weird piece post-LFC, issued a claim that Saka has not improved. How long until that widely-read idea becomes imbued in the wider discourse?
It’s a problem.
Some of the misrepresentation seems intentional, clicks are king and gooners seem to get baited more than most - even football365 sadly seems to have gone down that path recently
https://bsky.app/profile/highburydb102.bsky.social/post/3lpcja445cs25
While I agree with you on decisions, I wouldn't expect the press to agree. Their is an odd unwavering trust in the refs that they seem reluctant to analyse
All action bit too comfortable. There seems to be a lack of sensible debate. Sky and the papers preaching almost no wrongdoing and fan accounta accusing of systematic fraud. No in-between discussing standards and what could help improve them.
my only minor disagreement would be that i don't know that it's just "an impression" from the public but hugely from media "reinterpretation"/skewing of what he says to form a specific image of him that caused it.
Another example of him and his team taking up the challenge and not giving excuses is their quotes and handling of Saka getting rough treatment on the pitch.
But as you said the narrative says otherwise.
And this just further feeds the narrative.
The again, women's managers are refreshingly honest and seem to take every question asked seriously, so men's managers seem dull in comparison.