Arsenal legend sends savage message to Erling Haaland’s dad after Myles Lewis-Skelly criticism

Arsenal fable Alan Smith has urged Erling Haaland’s dada to ‘get backmost successful his box’ pursuing his scathing disapproval of Myles Lewis Skelly’s arguable extremity celebration.

The fallout from past Sunday’s container bureau Premier League clash shows nary motion of abating, with the rivalry betwixt the 2 clubs reaching toxic levels.

Teenager Lewis-Skelly has been heavy criticised for goading Haaland by mimicking his trademark celebration aft helium scored his archetypal extremity for the nine to enactment his broadside 3-1 ahead,

Haaland ruffled Arsenal’s feathers earlier this play erstwhile helium threw the shot astatine Gabriel’s caput pursuing John Stones’ 97th infinitesimal equaliser aft which the City extremity instrumentality called Gabriel Jesus a clown and urged Mikel Arteta to ‘stay humble’.

Arsenal gained a measurement of revenge past week but Haaland Snr took offence to the show of his lad being mocked and took the accidental to punctual Arsenal of their deficiency of silverware.

Smith, who won 2 Golden Boots during 2 rubric winning campaigns nether George Graham, deed back, reminding Alf-Inge that his clip successful England was hardly trophy-laden and insisted helium saw thing incorrect with Lewis-Skelly’s antics.

‘Haaland’s dada had a small chip, didn’t he?’ said Smith. ‘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.’

Earlier this week, the Premier League outlined its volition to show aboriginal extremity celebrations and suggested disciplinary enactment could beryllium taken if immoderate players took things excessively far.

The Premier League’s main shot officer, Tony Scholes, told Sky Sports connected Wednesday: ‘There’s a balance.

‘I deliberation we each similar to spot celebrations. Some of the celebrations person been precise funny, entertaining, but there’s a line.

‘Once it crosses implicit into mockery oregon disapproval past we would request to woody with it.’

With Arsenal retired of the FA Cup the lone mode the 2 teams tin conscionable again this play would beryllium successful Europe and that would necessitate City to sound Real Madrid retired of the Champions League.

Asked if helium would promote his players to retaliate successful benignant erstwhile they adjacent conscionable the Gunners, Pep Guardiola bittersweet connected Friday: ‘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.”

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