During Man City's Amazon: All Or Nothing season, there was a clip of Pep Guardiola's assistant, one Mikel Arteta, handing out some dressing room instructions to players. Seemingly addressing City's midfielders (Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, and David Silva), he urged them to ‘make fouls. If there is a transition, make a foul.' It came to mind after the controversy over Arsenal's goal against Watford on Sunday. Claudio Ranieri, the Italian Ned Flanders of football management, was dilly-ding, dilly-dong mad as hell that we didn't give them the ball back after Danny Rose had kicked it out. Asked about it by Sky Sports afterwards, Mikel Arteta said: What I would say is that I cannot...
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