LONDON, UK – Keith Hackett, former PGMOL chief, don drop him opinion on whether Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta go get belle for FA after him comments wey e make about refereeing this season. Hackett tell Football Insider say Arteta deserve kudos as him dey honestly talk about the poor officiating for this season.
As e be, Arsenal don collect five red cards this Premier League season, na im make dem joint-highest for the league this year. Early for di campaign, players like Granit Xhaka and Thomas Partey don chop second yellow cards for delaying restart by kicking ball away. Also, some controversial calls don happen earlier for this year.
All these red cards don seriously affect Arsenal chance as dem dey suffer for Premier League title race against Liverpool. As per di current situation, Arteta don criticise di officials dem, saying: ‘Di rules wey we see at di beginning of di season and di way wey we dey punished wey after 15 games don change. I hope say next season we go get new rules for plenty matches and change dem again—dat go help everybody, make dem follow dem together at least.’
Hackett land praise for Arteta on di matter of inconsistency wey dey for officiating. E point out say di long stoppage time wey dem introduce to ensure game fit run close to 90 minutes don disappear. E also comment about di incident wey happen on 27 April wey show di problem wey dey for officiating.
Di inconsistencies come clear when di same referee, Peter Bankes, make questionable decisions during di matches. Hackett reply Football Insider on Arteta comments, saying: ‘Di FA, di Premier League, and di PGMOL supposed take note and no sanction am for wetin e talk. We dey talk about di laws of football, no be di rules. Everybody don see di inconsistent style di referees dey use dis year.’
‘You fit remember di 12 and 14 minutes of added time? Where di matter don waka go? Last week, Bournemouth player collect red card for wetin dem call Serious Foul Play, but dat matter no suppose be serious foul play and di red card don dey overturned. Dis night, we see di same referee dey face with Serious Foul Play challenge wey he just ignore for di Man City versus Wolves match.’
‘Di acts of simulation, holding, pulling dey show everywhere. Di inconsistency dey clear for all to see. Dis year don really bad for officiating, and I dey applaud di Arsenal manager for him truth!!!’
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