The idea is to make them more used to the experience in store and thus more likely to cope and keep their emotions in check.Īlas, those with keen memories will recall that Arsenal not only lost the game last November 4-0, but also that Arteta quite explosively kicked off and had to be held back from launching himself at opposite number Jurgen Klopp on the touchline during it. His way of doing this is to set up a bunch of speakers around the training pitch and have them blast out You’ll Never Walk Alone as they perform their exercises. Amazon Prime Video Sport August 2, 2022 So Mikel Arteta prepares his players by blasting out You’ll Never Walk Alone during training 🎶 #AONArsenal /CjBQ3Lsn3T The atmosphere at Anfield can be intense 🔥 Recalling his playing days and explaining that one of the few times he let his emotions get the better of him was at Anfield, Arteta says he wants to prepare his players for the intensity they may experience there. “Stuff we haven’t had before, but it’s all motivation - it gives us that energy to go out and perform.”Īnd then there’s his preparation for Liverpool away. “It’s obviously different,” Emile Smith Rowe told The Athletic at the documentary’s premiere.
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In theory, it’s to illustrate the balance he wants between emotion and cold thought in his teams’ performances, but to the outside observer, it looks more like he’s workshopping doodles for a series of novelty birthday cards.īefore a game against Leicester, he arranges the whole squad in a circle, asks them to close their eyes and rub their hands together, then quite aggressively describes what he thinks is going to happen in the game and asks them to visualise it.
There’s another bit from a pre-match team talk where he draws cartoons on a whiteboard of a brain and a heart, both with arms, legs and faces. It feels like the equivalent of those “cool” teachers who sat the wrong way around on a chair and called their students “man”. It then cuts to him sitting on a ball on the training pitch, talking to one of his players.
In one interview, Arteta recalls an old Spanish coach who said that “players are numbers” and says he could never deal with his team like that, preferring to think of them as human beings. You’re often torn between wondering whether some of Arteta’s wackier ideas are genuinely interesting and novel ways of approaching things, or whether they are utterly absurd schemes that would become memes if Brendan Rodgers came out with them. So you have to look for something else, and in the three (out of nine) episodes seen by The Athletic ahead of its wider release, that “something else” is watching Arteta, how he works and specifically the “imaginative” pre-match motivational techniques he comes up with. The problem in terms of dramatic tension is obviously that… well, you know what happens in the end. The series follows Arsenal around during 2021-22, the season when the trust everyone had been urged to place in “the process” was supposed to bear some sort of fruit. In Arsenal’s version of All Or Nothing, most of those moments centre around Mikel Arteta. There are usually a few clips that go viral and/or become memes.Īnd there are usually a few - but only a few - moments that give some genuine insight into the inner workings of the club or its subjects. There is footage from training and from inside the dressing room. There are candid shots of players eating and chatting in the canteen. Adversity is built up and then overcome, to one extent or other. There are a few standard tropes within these series: tension is built with scenes of peril and dramatic music that wouldn’t sound out of place in a Christopher Nolan movie, but used to soundtrack a draw with Leicester. Perhaps they’re not really for fans of that club at all, more casual observers who just love fly-on-the-wall sports documentaries. Perhaps they allow global fans of the team more of an insight into what’s going on, to let them feel closer to their club than they otherwise would. It’s sometimes quite difficult to figure out what the point of All Or Nothing is, certainly from the subjects’ perspective.
And so, another All Or Nothing is upon us.Īrsenal are the willing subjects this time, following Manchester City, Juventus, Brazil and, of course, Tottenham in being stalked for a season by the Amazon cameras in the relentless name of content.
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