Jason Cundy says Arsenal star risks career-ending injury for mocking Manchester City rival

Jason Cundy has slammed Myles Lewis-Skelly for copying Erling Haaland’s solemnisation and claims Arsenal ‘haven’t earned the right’ to beryllium mocking Manchester City.

Mikel Arteta’s broadside delivered a ascendant show against the Premier League champions connected Sunday as they ran retired 5-1 winners astatine the Emirates Stadium.

Lewis-Skelly was progressive successful a heated speech with Haaland erstwhile the 2 sides met astatine the Etihad Stadium successful September and the 18-year-old sent a wide connection to the City striker by mimicking his solemnisation aft scoring Arsenal’s 3rd extremity successful Sunday’s fixture.

But Cundy has told Lewis-Skelly to ‘wind your cervix in’ and suggests the Arsenal defender could present look beardown retaliation from City’s players successful aboriginal games due to the fact that of his celebration.

‘If I had to accidental to you present what’s the biggest needle successful the crippled close present I’d accidental it’s Gabriel and Haaland, it’s lone recent, it’s lone this season,’ Cundy said connected talkSPORT.

‘There’s nary existent needle is there? There’s a small spot betwixt the 2 clubs but that goes historically back.

‘And I emotion that… a centre-half versus a centre-forward, each for that, Gabriel shouting successful his face, it’s not omniscient erstwhile there’s lone 2 minutes connected the clock, prime and take your battles.

‘But the Lewis-Skelly stuff… upwind your cervix in. Arsenal fans volition emotion it and I get wherefore they emotion it, ‘he’s 1 of us, he’s 1 of our own’. Fine. Haaland’s completed football.

‘And beryllium cautious what you bash astatine that age. I’m not truthful definite it’s omniscient for him to beryllium doing that. Run off, observe your goal, bash what you request to do, he’s a superb young player, he’s going to person a stellar vocation by the looks of it, helium looks apical drawer.

‘I’m not convinced it’s the wisest happening to bash due to the fact that there’s galore years to come, you wait, we saw what Roy Keane did to Haaland’s dad, conscionable beryllium cautious what battles you [take].

‘Also, they’re Arsenal and what person they done successful the past 20 years? Seriously, however tin they beryllium taking that conflict there? Quieten yourselves down, you’re a bully side, a truly bully team, you showed that astatine the weekend, you’re astir apt going to beryllium 2nd again.

‘When you triumph thing past you tin outcry from the houses, they you tin commencement doing each this housery. It’s built connected nothing. It comes from Arteta, helium loves to beforehand it, it’s fine, Arsenal fans volition emotion it, I wholly get it. I watched Chelsea nether Jose [Mourinho], Jose won things, Jose won backmost to backmost Premier Leagues, helium was there.

‘You gain the right, and close now, Arsenal haven’t earned the close to beryllium doing that benignant of housery. It’s fine, bash it, spot wherever it ends up, travel backmost astatine the extremity of the season. If they triumph the Premier League oregon the Champions League past we’ll person this conversation. But close present you’re conscionable pups, you’re pups and you’re messing astir with the large boys who person been there. Haaland’s got each the medals, he’s got the [Premier League] badge connected the side, it was a atrocious time astatine the office.

‘This is the occupation with Arsenal fans, it’s each astir the now. Trouble is, erstwhile was the past clip they had ‘the now’? Seriously, erstwhile was it the past clip it was ‘the now’? When was the past clip they went, ‘we’re the large dogs’?. I’ll archer you what they do, Arsenal, they’re precise bully astatine winning small battles, they don’t triumph the war. It’s true, that’s precisely what Arsenal are.

‘Man City… you’re talking astir a feline who has scored 250 vocation league goals and Lewis-Skelly is sitting determination doing that? Wind your cervix in, travel on, let’s person it right.’

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