If Mikel Arteta’s dossier is part of a deliberate strategy, it is a dangerous one for Arsenal | Jonathan Wilson
It doesn’t love dossiers themselves, of course; they’re for nerds – unless, that is, they’re a “secret dossier”, which have a thrilling redolence of spy dramas, invisible ink and dead drops.
Key points
- – drawing up scouting reports on opposing players, and they are preposterous today as Mikel Arteta collates images of rival managers stepping outside their technical area.
- Arteta, it should be said, did not use the word “dossier”; rather it was swiftly applied to what he had called “a massive storage of….
- Dossiers were preposterous when Don Revie was – imagine the pretension!
Non-secret dossiers, though, are inherently risible: call something a “dossier” in English football and you’re immediately signalling: this is absurd poindextering.
The manager is not yet in Alex Ferguson and José Mourinho’s league, but his conspiracy theories have reached new levels English football loves the word “dossier”.
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