Gunners old boys Arteta and Vieira clash as Palace and Arsenal kick off Premier League

Arsenal allowed a documentary crew to peer behind the scenes last season. Clubs who assume they have a global status do so more and more willingly, although managers tend to be lukewarm about the invasion of privacy.

It remains to be seen whether Mikel Arteta’s reputation has benefited from the exposure of his methods and temperament in the newly released "All or Nothing" Amazon production.

Arteta is not short of ideas, or innovative motivational quirks like arranging for the sound of an Anfield crowd bellowing out You’ll Never Walk Alone to be played at Arsenal practice ahead of a trip to Liverpool.

In the documentary, some players seemed roused by the idea. They still lost 4-0 once they reached the atmospheric home of Liverpool, where Arteta would be involved in a furious touchline altercation with his counterpart Jurgen Klopp.

Few coaches square up to Klopp without feeling a degree of intimidation. As with 15 other managers embarking on the new Premier League campaign, which begins on Friday with Arsenal’s trip to Crystal Palace, Arteta would be forgiven a sense of awe as he eyes the medals and experience concentrated among Klopp and the other three experts in charge of last season’s top-four Premier League clubs.

Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola, Klopp and Chelsea’s Thomas Tuchel have all won European Cups as head coaches. No other manager in England’s top flight has. Tottenham Hotspur’s Antonio Conte, embarking on his first full season in charge of Spurs, has won leagues with all three of the clubs he has managed within the past 10 years and it has never taken him longer than two seasons at any of them to finish top of the table.

Below that quartet, the major medals are spread far more thinly, and for none of the