Talking the talk has never been a difficulty for Arsenal. Just ask Roy Keane. Walking the walk, however, that’s where their problems lie, as Mikel Arteta is quickly discovering.
Under Arsene Wenger — at least in the first half of his reign — the Gunners were perfectly adept at doing both. Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp weren’t slow in coming forward when it was time for the insults to be dished out.
Arsenal’s current brigade have the lip part down to a tee, too.
‘The Arsenal players need to learn humility sometimes,’ said Brighton striker Neal Maupay after notching his side’s 95th-minute winner.