{"id":2258,"date":"2020-11-10T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2020-11-10T01:59:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:59:55","slug":"stop-the-denial-arteta-ball-is-bad-for-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/stop-the-denial-arteta-ball-is-bad-for-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop The Denial: Arteta-Ball Is Bad For Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Latest Podcast:<\/strong> After the trashing of Arsenal by Aston Villa last Sunday, yours truly and Blackburn George, after weeks of discussion of the issue in our podcasts, are now convinced Mikel Arteta is unable to set up Arsenal to play attacking football. Despite our initial hopes and dreams that Arteta would return Arsenal to playing a more positive brand of football, it is now clear the Spaniard is more like his old coach, David Moyes, in his regimented, highly structured set-up whose primary objective is to stop the other team from playing. That is why performances since Project Restart have been generally poor despite some significant victories. It doesn&#8217;t matter who is selected, playing Arteta-ball, Arsenal will finish mid-table.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is glaring in front our eyes. It is time to stop the denial, Arteta-ball is bad for the club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reminder:<\/strong> Help us gain more support for our no-nonsense, no bull-shit weekly review of the current state of Arsenal FC by Liking and Subscribing to our podcast wherever you listen.<\/p>\n<p>As always your comments are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/uncensored-arsenal-podcast\" data-resource=\"show_id=3655876\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"200px\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"false\" data-playlist-continuous=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-live-autoplay=\"false\" data-chapters-image=\"true\" data-episode-image-position=\"right\" data-hide-logo=\"false\" data-hide-likes=\"false\" data-hide-comments=\"false\" data-hide-sharing=\"false\" data-hide-download=\"true\">Listen to &#8220;UnCensored Arsenal Podcast&#8221; on Spreaker.<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Podcast: After the trashing of Arsenal by Aston Villa last Sunday, yours truly and Blackburn George, after weeks of discussion of the issue in our podcasts, are now convinced Mikel Arteta is unable to set up Arsenal to play attacking football. Despite our initial hopes and dreams that Arteta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[429,25,86,26],"tags":[469,24,466,73,472,315,470,471],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncensoredarsenal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}