PL bosses have duty to improve game – Arsenal boss Arteta،
Mikel Arteta says Premier League bosses have a duty to improve the game and insists he is motivated to help match officials reduce mistakes which can lead to managerial sackings.
An independent commission on Thursday cleared the 41-year-old of any wrongdoing after he was charged by the Football Association (FA) over his post-match comments following Arsenal's 1-0 defeat at Newcastle on November 4.
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Arteta called the decision to allow Anthony Gordon's 64th-minute goal “shameful”, “embarrassing” and that “I feel sick being part of this”, prompting the FA to accuse him of violation of rule E3.1: “insulting match officials and/or detrimental to the game and/or bringing the game into disrepute.
However, Arsenal hired a defense lawyer to support Arteta and the Spaniard requested a personal hearing in which he successfully argued that his comments were aimed at wider frustrations over the application of VAR rather than to denigrate individual officials.
It was revealed in the independent commission's written reasons that Arteta met with the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) referee body, Premier League representatives and Premier League managers on November 2 to discuss VAR .
Asked if he felt vindicated after the FA's accusation was not proven, Arteta said on Friday: “I think it was a really good and well-run process. It gave us gave both of us the opportunity to say what we felt and the reasons behind it.
“OK, the bottom line is I'm not charged, but I think we need to draw the line now and see how we can be more constructive, learn from it and move forward. It was good. I felt a lot of sympathy. to be honest, I explained the pressure we feel as managers and how important details are to our work.
Arteta then cited the 14 Premier League managers who lost their jobs last season, a record for a single season. This figure is also higher than the first seven Premier League seasons combined.
“I love what I do so much and I want to keep doing it,” Arteta said. “The reality is that 14 managers have lost their jobs and we depend on the results. When the result is so important, we are very emotional.
“No one remembers a loss three weeks ago for some reason. So I think it was a really good process.”
Asked if he thought PGMOL were ready to improve, Arteta said: “It's not about them, it's us. We want to play the game better. It's about to know how we can improve on the touchline to make life easier on the players' side.” their [officials] side, from a technology and club perspective.
“It's all up to us. We're all in this together, it's not about separate people trying to do their part. It's not going to work, we have to do it together.”
