An overreaction? But this was not an isolated tactic from your club: it's been going on since Arteta got there. Face it, he has changed the way most neutrals think about your club, and it hasn't changed for the better.
I get it that you will staunchly defend everything about the club, but calling public response to what was effectively yet another bottle job an 'overreaction' is undermining what the sport is about. Winning at all costs is NOT on the table, as far as I'm concerned. The spirit of the game should never be allowed to wallow in the gutter like it did with Revie all those years ago, and having professional footballers go out of their way to deliberately injure another is a big no-no.
The attack on Rodri (because that's what it amounted to) was premeditated, almost certainly orchestrated by Arteta and your training staff. It could have ended the man's career, and the thug who was responsible for it will not be at your club forever, he will move on to warmer climes and enjoy his retirement in luxury, not giving a flying fuck about the man whose playing days were ended by that totally unwarranted display of cowardly violence.
There was always going to be some fall-out from your display, Arteta must have anticipated some kind of negative feedback from the media after instructing your team to go out and do what they did in front of a televised audience of millions and millions - despite him feigning surprise at the resultant backlash.
Prior to the game I was relatively indifferent to Arsenal, not anymore. After yesterday's disgusting performance and the loud cheering when an opposItion player was injured, I now put your club in the same category as I do the rags and the dippers.