It will be hard to quantify just how many lives Mikel Arteta saved by contracting the coronavirus. The Arsenal manager testing positive on March 12 helped to ensure hundreds of thousands of people -- from fans to players and support staff -- were no longer at risk of being infected around the following weekend's English Premier League games. “All the news we had was from China, then Italy and then Spain,” Arteta recalled. “Then you realize, ‘Wow, everybody can be exposed here.’” And yet, the British government had been dismissing the danger of sports venues significantly spreading the new coronavirus, telling sports to carry on as usual even as the pandemic escalated.