All or Nothing: that was the portentous title of Arsenal’s fly-on-the-wall documentary, chronicling Mikel Arteta’s early efforts to prove his managerial pedigree. In each of the four seasons since this series was commissioned, he has had to resign himself bleakly to the nothing option.
This is not to disregard the quantum leap he has engineered, guiding the club from rank mediocrity to two, potentially three straight runner-up finishes in the Premier League, not to mention a first appearance in a Champions League semi-final for 16 years. It is to acknowledge the fact that, of the eight semi-final games his team have reached since 2020-21, they have failed to win any.