These guys went to a great length to criticize arteta and protect PGMol. But when Manchester United got decisions against them, they are suddenly against var and referees? And United got robbed somehow? Where was that energy with arteta?
This is why Var and referees won’t improve that much. They didn’t care about it when it happened to rivals. But once it happened to them, suddenly the world is against them.
Arteta was asked about it at the post match from their following match (after Liverpool vs Spurs, so it was after Lens vs Arsenal)
Sounds pretty supportive to me. I’m not sure why the media are trying to twist some later quote
What’s worse is that tons of pundits have fallen for it. I’ve seen multiple people like Alan shearer and the bloke who does analysis on ref calls criticise Arteta for being hypocritical. You’d think they’d have done more research, but I think that says a lot about our current quality of punditry…
Pundits often seem like any old fan. Seen a headline on their Facebook and just accepted it as gospel