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Arsenal: Wright throws shade at Premier League referee for Rice sending off

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Declan Rice red card against Brighton.

Medley legend Ian Wright has bombarded Premier League referee Chris Kavanagh for his controversial red card in the standard of Gunners midfielder Declan Rice at the weekend break.

The Medley midfielder was offered his marching edicts on the 49th min in a poor 1-1 draw to Brighton on Saturday, as they depreciated two times at the Emirates.

The 25-year-worn kicked the sphere away as Joel Veltman was about to filch a exhaust kick, in what was his second booking of the arcade.

While Wright believes Rice will be “a miniscule miniscule fragment let down”, the former front guy has made every physical effort his stress in the standard of the referee over the red card.

“You have to filch the juncture,” Wright oriented Premier League Productions. “I execute assume Declan (Rice) will elegance at the two yellows and be a miniscule miniscule fragment let down.

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“But, at the truly same time, when you elegance at the refereeing and some of the determinations he (Chris Kavanagh) made. I assume this referee had fulcra-personality power anyhow.

“At the truly same time, when human being (Joao Pedro) are kicking the sphere away in the first half and you aren’t booking them, after that you kind of execute truly feel a miniscule miniscule fragment hurt by that.

“This is why I assume human being were so irritate. That apprehension, yes, (Rice’s first yellow card). It’s one of those obstacles whereby he has made a honest physical effort to earn earn service of of the sphere, but you earn earn service of of booked for that.

“But after that under (second yellow). You elegance at Veltman and what he is doing there. Veltman is trying to earn earn service of of him booked. Veltman has zero one to enact the sphere to.

“He recognizes especially what he is doing. Those are the points VAR can elegance at. He recognizes what he is doing. He is trying to earn earn service of of him sent off.

“Declan Rice doesn’t have to kick the sphere, but at the truly same time, Declan is messing around the arcade, but so is Veltman. You can recognise what Declan is doing, but you aren’t intended to recognise what Veltman is doing?!

“He’s not literally peeking to enact that to anybody. He’s asserting prefer he is going to execute it, so if it hits Declan, after that he acquires booked and he is off.

“And that’s what showed up – if we are going to be doing points prefer that with human being kicking the sphere away, after that execute that in the first half with Joao Pedro.

“The sphere went out of tinker and he still blared the sphere away. Implement that as nicely. I don’t treatment about an apologetic face (from the referee when he had to send out Rice off) and that. Implement it satisfactorily unanimously the means. That’s why Medley followers have got the hump.”

Medley will be let down with their draw to high flying Brighton but will elegance to their North London derby clash with Tottenham after the International violate.

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