No one likes whining, especially in sports. When things are going good for your team, ride the wave and thank yourself, your teammates and colleagues for your good work, and if she had anything to do with it – thank ‘lady luck’. Even if the result is not good, again do the same, pick yourself up afterward and try to do better next time. Just please do not moan.In today’s sports, there are the coaches who always take the blame for poor performances, they take all responsibility and keep on working. And there are the others – those who always find that something or someone else is to blame. In this second group, as far as Premier League goes, we could put Thomas Tuchel and Mikel Arteta, according to a study by the renowned British outlet The Athletic.#Tuchel ranked the most complaining #manager last season with #Arteta coming second. Should we still expect the same fit going into the new #season? 👁️ pic.twitter.com/eUUoAyycdc— Football Gazette (@FootballGazett1) August 4, 2022 The managers of Chelsea and Arsenal were the two Premier League strategists who most often found excuses for the poor results of their teams during the 2021-2022 season. This fun ranking is topped by the German. After defeats or draws, in his post-match interviews, he offered excuses in 57.9% of cases, pointing to Covid (3 times), refereeing decisions (2), (lack of) luck (2), his own players (2), fatigue or – after a defeat against Arsenal in April – even the state of the lawn at Stamford Bridge. The Arsenal’s Spaniard is not far off – Arteta found excuses in 55.5% of cases and his favorite excuse was arbitration. This is also what is most often used by Premier League coaches in the broad sense, 67 times in total over the whole of last season, far ahead of the level of players (37 times) or injuries (20 times).##NAJAVA_MECA_6541747##On the other hand, there are still those who believe that the bad and the good are results of their own action. At the other extreme of the ranking, those who have sought the fewest excuses are the coaches of Leeds United: Marcelo Bielsa (13%), who has always refused to criticize the refereeing but has sometimes pointed out the injuries that affected his team, and Jesse Marsch (12.5%). The former and the current managers of the Peacocks, along with Brentford coach Thomas Frank, are the only ones who have never used refereeing as an excuse.Arsenal’s pre-season form indicates that we won’t be hearing much of Arteta and his criticism of the referees while Chelsea are so unstable in the this preparatory period that it won’t be a surprise if Tuchel distances himself at the top of this peculiar list.##NAJAVA_MECA_6541751##
