Arsenal’s All or Nothing documentary was finally released last week, and it’s fair to say that there’s been a mixed reception to some of Mikel Arteta’s managerial methods.
Arteta has been the butt of more than a few jokes after some of his methods were caught on camera.
Indeed, some were less than impressed by how Arteta tried to motivate some of his players, and one moment, in particular, stood out.
Prior to one match, Arteta used cartoon drawings of a heart and a brain to try to gee up some of his players, but the speech seemed to fall rather flat.
However, after analysing the scene, Lee Dixon has come out in defence of Arteta, claiming that the speech was edited in a way to make it look more cheesy.
What’s been said?
Dixon stuck up for Arteta on the Seaman Says podcast.
“I get that, but if you look at it, I have my media head on here. If you look at the whiteboard when he starts there’s a heart and a brain. Then it cuts to the players and back to him and there’s a load of writing on the pad that he’s done in the speech. They’ve edited it out so the context of it looks a bit like that’s not going to work, but the actual speech was 20 minutes long, so it looks a bit cheesy, but if you were in the dressing room it would be more inspirational, and I’m sticking up for Arteta here,” Dixon said.
Not enough time in the show
Dixon’s comments highlight the main issue of these sports documentaries.
Over a working week, so many hours go into preparing for each and every game, but with just one hour in any given episode, we only see a snapshot of what the team are up to and how the manager is preparing.
Arteta’s team talks have been condensed in this series, and while they don’t look too special after the edit, as Dixon says, the full speech may well have been more inspirational.
We certainly can’t fully judge Arteta off the back of this series.
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