Letting Mikel Arteta off the hook shows football is sending mixed messages over referee abuse
Within the 37 pages of legal explanation clearing Mikel Arteta of his misconduct charge is one striking, watershed conclusion: that attacking Var, and all its myriad deficiencies, is now a form of protected speech. As histrionic as the Spaniard’s rant was after Arsenal lost at Newcastle last month, calling Var “embarrassing” and a “disgrace”, an independent panel chaired by a King’s Counsel found these labels were perfectly legitimate in the context of the system’s chronic failures. The case of
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