'It's my duty to defend my club' - Everything Arteta said on his VAR outburst
Mikel Arteta accepts that referees will make mistakes, but he will never stop fighting for Arsenal's justice.
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00:00 It is my duty to stand in front of you, to stand in front of the cameras and give a very
00:12 clear and honest assessment of what happens in the game.
00:15 And this is what I did, reflect very openly how I felt that the team played and how the
00:23 game was conditioned by these results with the decisions that were made.
00:27 And it's the duty, my duty is to be defending my players, supporting my players, supporting
00:33 my club, defending my people in the best possible way.
00:36 And this is what I'm going to do time after time.
00:39 And I do it in the way I feel with the evidence and being as clear as possible.
00:43 And I always do it.
00:44 When we play really need to say that, when we have lost to take my responsibility, the
00:49 first one me, to do it.
00:51 And it's the way that I am and I have to defend my club.
00:56 Again, we have a duty to express how we feel with all the evidence that we have and the
01:03 history of what happened.
01:05 And I think we have to really stand for our people, our values and who we are.
01:11 And when the club has done it, it's done it in a very specific moment for the right reasons.
01:15 And it shows as well the unity and the understanding that is within the club to position ourselves
01:22 in a really clear and honest way.
01:25 And I think that's our duty as a club.
01:28 I think the support that we have given to everybody and I continue to, that's not going
01:32 to change.
01:33 And I'm going to be there, I have to talk to anyone, I will be in any meeting and trying
01:37 to reinforce everything.
01:38 We all want the same, that this is not the topic.
01:42 We all want the same, but we have to understand that we have to be there.
01:45 And if you guys and everybody wants in football that we are there and we get our opinion,
01:49 we have to get our opinion in an honest way and clear.
01:52 Don't talk about other things, be clear and honest, very respectful, but clean and honest.
01:57 And value what we have and make sure that we continue evolving the game the way we want.
02:01 That's it.
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