Ian Wright fumes at Premier League referees after Myles Lewis-Skelly's 'joke' red card

Arsenal defender Myles Lewis-Skelly was shown a arguable reddish paper during the Gunners' 1-0 triumph against Wolves, leaving manager Mikel Arteta 'absolutely fuming'

Arsenal fable Ian Wright has go the latest pundit to slam Myles Lewis-Skelly's reddish paper against Wolves.

Lewis-Skelly, 18, was controversially sent disconnected successful the Gunners' melodramatic 1-0 win astatine Molineux connected Saturday. The Arsenal left-back caught Matt Doherty's ankle with his studs conscionable 5 yards extracurricular Wolves ' punishment country to halt a antagonistic attack.

Referee Michael Oliver deemed his tackle 'serious foul play' and the teenage defender went for an aboriginal bath soon earlier half-time. Fortunately for Arsenal, they yet managed to drawback each 3 points done a extremity from substitute Riccardo Calafiori, though brag Mikel Arteta was inactive 'absolutely fuming' aft the last whistle.

Wright joined him, taking to societal media to slam Oliver's determination and the Premier League 's modular of refereeing. "Can I conscionable say? It's a joke. Anyone that has ever played the game, and I'm not adjacent talking Premier League - I'm talking five-a-side, Sunday league - knows it's ne'er a red," the erstwhile striker fumed.

"Yellow card, cipher says a word. Time and clip again, this level of refereeing, the decisions successful the Premier League, the inconsistency, the excuses, the apologies - each of [the referees] conscionable [want to beryllium the] centre of attention, for me. We can't criticise excessively hard due to the fact that wherever are the refs going to travel from? Where are we going to get them?

"But, I'm sorry. This is the highest level of shot and we bash not person the highest level of referees. When volition the Premier League bring the champion refs into the alleged champion league successful the world. Because, astatine the moment, with this level of referees, we're obscurity adjacent it. Nowhere adjacent it."

Wright added arsenic the caption of his Instagram post: "Whether you've played Sunday League oregon 5 a broadside oregon Premier League level you cognize it's conscionable ne'er ever a reddish card.

"They are going to effort and find each sorts of angles and dilatory mo's to effort and warrant the incompetency and inconsistency of PGMOL [the assemblage successful complaint of Premier League officials]. Because what's the constituent of the VAR if the ref did get it incorrect but they won't close him???????"

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Arteta felt that the determination was truthful evidently incorrect that helium didn't request to speech astir it during his post-match property conference. " I deliberation it's that obvious, we don't request immoderate comments contiguous and hopefully the close happening volition hap aft today," the Gunners brag explained.

"Hopefully we don't request to [appeal the decision], and if we person to, it happened and it's a truly bully precedent for what happened with Bruno [Fernandes] arsenic good this season. Okay, we were successful a presumption that we shouldn't beryllium successful but astatine slightest beryllium successful a presumption we should beryllium successful for the adjacent fewer weeks and let our players to proceed to amusement up."

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