Not just Arteta, other manager’s coming out to defend him, a lot of people who are somehow making a living as journalists saying he was doing a good job, comparing his record with Rafa etc. but ignoring the facts and circumstances behind those stories. In the case of the manager’s you have to assume they are getting behind ‘one of their own’ and in the case of the journalists, are writing wind up stories to provoke a response. I can’t believe anyone who’s defended him recently genuinely thinks he was a good manager and did a good job here, surely nobody is actually that stupid, surely?