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Roy Keane is wrong - here's why Mikel Arteta CAN lead Arsenal to the title next season, writes OLIVER HOLT

This is not a hagiography of Mikel Arteta. I’m not all-in on the Arsenal boss.

For a start, who gets a dog to help the squad bond and calls it 'Win'? It feels like something out of a David Brent leadership manual. That poor chocolate Labrador, stuck with a name like that for the rest of its life. It may need therapy.

I don’t like Arteta’s attitude to referees, either, the histrionics on the touchline, the undermining of the officials' authority, turning players into martyrs because a decision has gone against them. Arteta is far from alone in this, of course, but these things become self-fulfilling prophecies.