Every word of explosive Mikel Arteta interview as Arsenal FC manager fumes over penalty controversy

Arteta: Yes. I'm so upset. It's unacceptable at this level. Unacceptable. This can change the course of a season, the championship, and it's not acceptable. I've seen it ten times to make sure because I watch it live and I said, it's not possible at this level, there's going to be a penalty because it's a judo role. That's what it is. It just cannot happen.

Arteta: Not in my view, in any view that has played football, I've been in football for almost 27 years, 28 years, it's not a penalty in any case, in any game, in any context, in any league.

Arteta: That is the unbelievable players that we have. And the spirit and the courage to go again, and again, again. I am so pleased in one sense and so worried in another.

Arteta: Unbelievable. Again. He's a player that decides football matches when we need. Big credit to Sunderland as well, the way they play, the way they are coached. What they do because they are a really good time. I don't want to take any credit out of them because they really deserve a lot of credit for how hard they make it for you. Not only that, in periods they play, have courage, and have a great understanding of what they have to do throughout the game. It's been extremely tough, really happy that we've done it.

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