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Wenger calls for referees to be firmer on bad fouls

10 Feb 2013 08:17:23

Wenger calls for referees to be firmer on bad fouls




He added: "The referee let two or three things go that I thought were fouls on Jack. I want just the referee to give a foul when it's a foul. I don't want any special protection. The referee is not a bodyguard, he is just a referee and you want him just to give a foul when it's a foul."

Wilshere limped off after 50 minutes following a collision with Sunderland's Alfred N'Diaye. Wenger's men might have had the game wrapped up by half-time, but ended it hanging on for dear life with Sunderland capitalising on their numerical advantage to stage a late onslaught.

Arsenal had gone in at the break well worth the lead Santi Cazorla's strike had given them. However, the game changed with 62 minutes gone when Jenkinson, who had only got the nod after Laurent Koscielny injured himself during the warm-up, was booked for the second time in the game and sent off.


Wenger's opposite number O'Neill was left scratching his head after seeing his team come up only just short. He said: "It was a great game from start to finish. The tempo was very high early on and it remained so. Obviously Arsenal, a top-quality team, caused us a lot of problems in the first half but I also thought we looked dangerous as well.

"But in the second half, we just came roaring at them, and that was even before the man had been sent off. Seriously, looking back at a couple of the chances, I just don't know how we didn't score."



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