Arsenal: Pat Nevin on the Lewis-Skelly red card in Wolves

I was in the Lobos Against the Arsenal game on Saturday for BBC Radio 5 and live in the air, I had to react to the decision to send Myles Lewis-Skellly.

I went down to the side that it was strange and basically wrong. The officials thought it was not worth all that exhausting effort to walk to see the evidence of the video that felt incompetence, bordering the arrogance towards the players.

‌ You can track the rules and present a case that in a single freezing framework connected to the ankle, but this is a pure technician. The ‘on the ankle’ tacle are considered worthy of a red, since in the theory, most could endanger a player. This did not endanger a player at that level because it was a trip. Cynical, unfair, irritating, trap, yes. But a red card that did not even deserve to be look? At all.

The referees claim that they know the rules and understand the dangers, none has had a small percentage of the type of tacle that I endured in a race of almost two decades. I was the one who received at the receiving end almost every time, and I know the difference between a very dangerous challenge and a small cunning trip.

I hope that when you read this, that Red Card has been terminated. It may not only have seriously affected the young and complete, but also the entire Arsenal season. This decision almost destroyed much of the joy, emotion and tension of the Premier League encounter, the gunners were unfairly lost. Fortunately, they did not, but it was a close call, unlike the red card itself.

‌ I have worked on television, radio and in a printed way talking about football and may surprise you that you have never realized a referee, a rarity that few note.

‌ The reason is to respect the difficulty of work and, unless they undergo “out there” for word or action, I always say, referee, assistant or var.

I wonder however, if that anonymity is the last thing some of them want!