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GRAEME SOUNESS: Get off Mikel Arteta's back! I'd have been boiling too. If you think that was a goal you just don't know the game

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I can tell you from my own experience as a manager that the media always want to catch you in your moment of greatest weakness, straight after a match.

They want you to walk up the tunnel and straight into your press conference, to get your thoughts the minute a game has finished. Not an hour afterwards, when you’ve had time to get your head straight and think what you’re going to say.

Many was the time, as a manager, that I’d sit in the dressing room and think, ‘I’m not going to go there in the press conference.