“Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to ...” — Mikel Arteta Quote

Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you're not winning you have to be prepared for that. It's part of your job.

When you stop for months and you come back, you try everything, and I worked so hard to get back but then you do it again and again and again. You disappoint yourself and other people at the club, the manager, everybody. You don't know how to get it right.

After winning, it's hard to go to not winning.

I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them.

We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!

My love for Arsenal dates back to when I went to watch them play with the then-largest shareholder David Dein. I developed a likeness for the team, and I have been a supporter of the team since then.

The disappointment level is a lot greater at Arsenal if you don't get the right result.

My dad Chester was a pianist and later a well-known television entertainer so football was never really something that was on his radar. However when I was a young boy a family friend took me to see an Arsenal game and from that moment on I was totally and utterly hooked.