Brighton & Hove Albion manager Fabian Hürzeler revealed that he reached out to Mikel Arteta via text to justify his scathing criticism of Arsenal’s time-wasting which had made him emotional earlier this month.
Hürzeler’s initial comments sparked a tidal wave of ill-will towards the Premier League leaders. Having fretted over Arsenal’s rough corner tactics in the buildup to Brighton’s top-flight clash with the Gunners, the German coach railed against the dark arts he perceived to have been deployed on the south coast. “Only one team tried to play football,” he fumed after a 1–0 loss.
