‘Show a bit of class’ – Roy Keane takes aim at Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta

Roy Keane was not impressed by Mikel Arteta’s effect to Leandro Trossard’s reddish paper astatine Manchester City connected Sunday, telling the Arsenal manager to ‘show a spot of class.’

The Gunners picked up a 2-2 draw astatine the Etihad, but yet felt disappointed arsenic the champions equalised successful injury-time acknowledgment to a scrambled John Stones goal.

The melodramatic contention saw Erling Haaland unfastened the scoring aboriginal on, earlier Riccardo Calafiori equalised successful stunning benignant and Gabriel headed Arsenal into the lead.

The half-time whistle was inactive yet to stroke erstwhile Trossard was fixed his marching orders, shown a yellowish paper for kicking the shot distant aft giving distant a free-kick.

Arteta was fuming connected the sidelines and portion helium tried to debar commenting connected the determination aft the match, helium was evidently aggravated with the reddish card, which came conscionable 3 weeks aft Declan Rice was sent disconnected astatine Brighton successful akin circumstances.

‘It is precise obvious, I don’t request to speech astir it. I deliberation the reddish paper is precise clear, precise evident what radical think,’ Arteta told Sky Sports.

‘It is not my occupation to travel present and justice what happened. My occupation is to past successful 1 of the astir hard environments determination is successful shot for 55 minutes and effort to get things done to survive.

‘The remainder is not my job, but it has already happened doubly successful 5 games which is precise worrying to spot successful the champion league the Premier League.’

Arteta mightiness deliberation that everyone agrees with him, but it is not truly the lawsuit arsenic Trossard’s actions were particularly anserine successful the circumstances and helium couldn’t truly person galore complaints.

Keane says it is not conscionable Arteta helium was aiming his comments at, but asked for managers to effort and beryllium a spot little biased and honorable successful their assessments, alternatively than blindly defending their players.

‘Wouldn’t it beryllium bully if a manager came retired aft a crippled and conscionable said: “Yeah, you cognize what helium was a spot silly, it was a yellowish card,”‘ Keane said.

‘Every manager is coming retired each week going: “No, it wasn’t a foul, it wasn’t this, thing happened 5 minutes earlier.” Just travel retired and beryllium large enough…players bash daft worldly connected a shot pitch, travel retired and amusement a spot of people and say: “The referee gave him a accidental to nonstop him off. We’re disappointed but we determination on.”

‘I get that he’s going to combat his corner, but each present and again travel out, and I don’t conscionable mean Arteta, managers each week are saying each determination is against them. Deep down he’ll beryllium satisfied with a point. Just amusement a spot of class, manager of Arsenal, accidental that helium astir apt deserved the yellowish paper but we reacted well, we’re a large club, we determination connected quickly. But they’re perpetually saying “it’s a disgrace.” He said it a fewer weeks agone astir Rice

‘Take your medicine, amusement immoderate class, your squad did good today, you’re arrogant of them and determination on. Show a spot of class.’

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