Arsenal legend Alan Smith slams Erling Haaland's dad as Man City war of words escalates

Former Arsenal striker Alan Smith has waded into the warfare of words involving Erling Haaland elder aft Myles Lewis-Skelly mimicked his son's extremity solemnisation past weekend

Alan Smith has told Alf-Inge Haaland to 'get backmost successful his box' aft helium aimed a excavation astatine Arsenal pursuing their caller 5-1 triumph implicit Manchester City.

Haaland, the begetter of City's prima striker, Erling, took to societal media to deed retired astatine Arsenal aft Myles Lewis-Skelly mimicked his son's extremity celebration aft scoring successful the match.

Sharing a representation of the youngster's solemnisation connected Arsenal's X account, which was captioned with the words 'THIS TEAM', helium wrote sarcastically: "This Team that wins everything. Ehhhhh, not," pointing to the information that City person beaten Arsenal to the Premier League rubric for 2 years running.

But Smith, a erstwhile Gunners icon, has had a excavation backmost astatine Haaland Senior by mischievously pointing retired that the Norwegian hardly won a shedload of large honours during his ain career.

Speaking connected the Seaman Says podcast, Smith said: "Haaland's dada had a small chip, didn't he? 'Saying, 'Oh, yeah, each those trophies you've won,' oregon thing similar that. I thought, "Oh, permission it'. It's conscionable funny!

"By the way, Alf-Inge, you didn't triumph much! Back successful your box. You can't unrecorded your beingness done your son, you know. It was a large moment, wasn't it? Those kinds of things are great."

Lewis-Skelly's actions person divided sentiment online and amongst pundits. It was confirmed earlier this week by the Premier League's main shot officer, Tony Scholes, that moving forward, celebrations would beryllium scrutinised and disciplinary enactment could adjacent beryllium taken successful immoderate instances.

While Lewis-Skelly's solemnisation has surely proven to beryllium a talking constituent successful the week pursuing the match, City manager, Pep Guardiola, has made it wide that helium has nary contented with the youngster's actions.

When helium was asked if helium would similar to spot his players retaliate successful their adjacent crippled with Arsenal, Guardiola said: "No, travel on, it's a reaction, forget! It has happened. Later successful our games possibly we'll find them successful the Champions League this season.

"Otherwise, it's implicit the accidental we tin face, and adjacent play we'll effort to bushed them. This play we could not bash it astatine location and away.

"That's all, it's really, truly not important."

Arsenal and City volition not look each different successful the league again this play but they could yet conscionable successful the Champions League if they some advancement past the Last 16 phase.

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