Did you see Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta go on a ‘rampage’ as the pressure builds?

Of course you didn’t because actually, Mikel Arteta just got a bit mad about a decision that went against his football team and just jumped up and down a bit. Like other managers do.

Under pressure
Arsenal have not lost a Premier League game in four months. They have been unbeaten in 11 Premier League games and have won nine of those 11 games. Only five Premier League teams have ever had a better start to the season than Arsenal.

On Tuesday night they drew 0-0 with Newcastle United, the Premier League team with the tightest defence in the top flight, to move eight points clear at the top of the table.

So…

‘Losing their heads with Newcastle showed Arsenal ARE feeling the pressure of being top… but with Tottenham, Man United and City to come, Mikel Arteta must hold his nerve for this season-defining run’

Oh they ARE, are they, MailOnline?

And what are the tell-tale signs of Arsenal feeling the pressure? Not actually losing to the team in third, of course, so what?

The story begins…

‘Mikel Arteta lost it. Arsenal’s players lost it. And yet, the Premier League leaders didn’t lose this game.

‘They drew 0-0 and getting a point out of Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United is perfectly fine. It is more than Arsenal’s London neighbours Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur got out of them.

‘Yet towards the end of this draw at the Emirates Stadium, the behaviour of Arteta and his team showed the pressure they are feeling at the top of the Premier League.’

Or – and this is just a theory – did it show that Arteta and his team believed they should have been awarded two penalties?

‘In their desperation to win, they lost control. In the technical area Arteta acted like a child being denied a chocolate bar by his mum at the tills, stomping and screaming.’

And obviously this is behaviour entirely specific to Mikel Arteta and his current situation of ‘feeling the pressure of being top’?

Quite why Pep Guardiola kicked a bottle just last week, Jesse Marsch was fined for swearing at officials or Jurgen Klopp was fined for screaming in the face of an assistant referee is unclear.

And this was in August with neither team ‘feeling the pressure of being top’…

TUCHEL VS CONTE: ROUND TWO!!! 🤬🤬pic.twitter.com/l3QbjpgiMu

— Sky Sports (@SkySports) August 14, 2022

But when Arteta gets aggrieved about referee decisions, he is ‘feeling the pressure of being top’? And people wonder why fans get ideas about media agendas.

‘On the field,…