{"id":296167,"date":"2023-11-11T22:58:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=296167"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T22:58:18","slug":"ian-wright-disagrees-with-gary-neville-over-arsenals-var-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/ian-wright-disagrees-with-gary-neville-over-arsenals-var-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Wright disagrees with Gary Neville over Arsenal&apos;s VAR statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ian Wright disagrees with Gary Neville over Arsenal&#8217;s &#8216;dangerous&#8217; statement after VAR controversy&#8230; insisting that he&#8217;s &#8216;happy&#8217; the Gunners backed Mikel Arteta and questions why referees &#8216;can&#8217;t be critiqued&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gary Neville described Arsenal&#8217;s statement over VAR controversy as &#8216;dangerous&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ian Wright has strongly disagreed with Neville while speaking on The Overlap\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DOMINIC KING: I don&#8217;t understand what football is anymore &#8211; It&#8217;s All Coming Up<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ian Wright has backed Arsenal&#8217;s statement which supported Mikel Arteta over his post-match rant following their defeat to Newcastle last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Arsenal manager delivered a scathing rant towards VAR officials, as he described Anthony Gordon&#8217;s winner as &#8217;embarrassing&#8217; and a &#8216;disgrace&#8217; in his post-match media duties following their 1-0 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal strongly backed him in a statement on Sunday, stating that the loss involved more &#8216;unacceptable refereeing and VAR errors&#8217; and that the Premier League &#8216;deserves better&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville described Arsenal&#8217;s statement &#8211; as well as Liverpool&#8217;s one following their controversial loss to Tottenham &#8211; as &#8216;dangerous&#8217; and that clubs should &#8216;behave better in these circumstances&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast\u00a0on The Overlap, Ian Wright said he was &#8216;happy&#8217; the Gunners backed Mikel Arteta, and that the Spaniard was &#8216;well within his rights&#8217; to criticise officials on the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/07\/77641089-12733525-image-a-11_1699602175833.jpg\" height=\"437\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ian Wright (right) has defended Arsenal for their statement backing Mikel Arteta&#8217;s scathing rant<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/06\/19\/77470195-12716935-image-a-3_1699298330160.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Arteta described Anthony Gordon&#8217;s winner as &#8217;embarrassing&#8217; and a &#8216;disgrace&#8217; after the 1-0 loss<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/07\/77640305-12733525-image-a-23_1699599829424.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/07\/77640297-12733525-image-m-22_1699599823092.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville (right) described Arsenal&#8217;s decision to back Arteta&#8217;s rant &#8216;as dangerous&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Neville whether he was proud of the club for backing Arteta, the Arsenal legend responded: &#8216;Yeah, I&#8217;m pleased that Jurgen Klopp did too because of the gravity of the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I still feel Mikel was well within his rights. I&#8217;m happy with them [Arsenal] backing their manager because we&#8217;re seeing mistakes on a scale now that, something has to be said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why shouldn&#8217;t the club back him if what Mikel said was fine? Why can&#8217;t we critique them?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everybody is complicit with aspects of the way that referees are, they have their own shows, they&#8217;re on co-commentary, they&#8217;re in it and they&#8217;re a part of the entertainment now for the clicks!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Neville in response doubled down on his criticism of the Gunners handling of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He responded: &#8216;My point is that, this is Arsenal Football Club. An institution, one of the founding Premier League clubs &#8211; they&#8217;re partly responsible for the rules that are in place &#8211; you can&#8217;t just turn on your own, publicly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s the Premier League referees. The managers can [critique referees], the coaches can, the players can, the fans can, the pundits can, but can the clubs come out &#8211; like Arsenal and Liverpool &#8211; and question sporting integrity, mention replays and looking at their options? To me that is really dangerous.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In the build-up to Arsenal&#8217;s Champions League victory over Sevilla, Arteta defended his comments from the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/07\/77640353-12733525-image-a-24_1699599927126.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wright questioned why referees &#8216;can&#8217;t be critiqued&#8217; in response to Neville&#8217;s criticism<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/07\/77640351-12733525-image-a-25_1699599954352.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>VAR has come increasingly under scrutiny this season following controversial decisions &#8211; heightened by Liverpool&#8217;s wrongly disallowed goal against Tottenham in October<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;It is my duty to stand in front of the cameras and give a very clear and honest assessment of what happens in the game. This is what I did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Reflect very openly how I felt the team played and how the game was conditioned by the decisions that were made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My duty is to defend my players, club and people in the best possible way. This is what I&#8217;m going to do time after time and I do it, not the way I feel, (but) with the evidence and being as clear as possible. I always do it. It&#8217;s the way I am and I have to defend my club.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mail Sport revealed this week\u00a0that Arsenal are set to cite refereeing decisions that have gone against them since last campaign in their next meeting in a bid to prove a pattern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12733525\/Ian-Wright-DISAGREES-Gary-Neville-Arsenals-dangerous-statement-VAR-controversy-insisting-hes-happy-Gunners-backed-Mikel-Arteta-questions-referees-critiqued.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Wright disagrees with Gary Neville over Arsenal&#8217;s &#8216;dangerous&#8217; 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