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Richard Keys says £158,000-a-week Arsenal man is ‘behaving like a fool’ now
Richard Keys has once again had a go at Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta for his antics on the touchline during the win over Brighton and Hove Albion.
The Spaniard is loved by Arsenal fans for his behaviour. The passion he shows lifts everyone in 🔯the stadium, but some pundits don’t like it one bit. Keys📖 is one of them.
Richard Keys tells Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to stop ‘behaving like a fool’
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has been in the news a lot this sea💃son for all the⛦ wrong reasons.
The £158,000-a-week () Spaniard wears his heart on the sleeve. He plays the game with his players and is extremely emotional on the touchline – in mo🎉ments of joy as well as 🧸disappointment.
Arteta’s remarks after the controversial defeat at Newcastle United made a lot of headlines and even saw the FA charge him. An independent panel rightly dismissed that and cleared him of any wrongdoing.
Be🤪fore that, Arteta received his third yellow card of the season for excessive celebration. He wa🦹s slapped with a touchline ban that forced him to watch his side lose to Aston Villa from the stands.
Against Brighton in the very next game,🌠 Arteta picked up another yellow card for 💦dissent, and Keys has now had a real go at him.
He wrote on his : “Come on Mikel.🍒 You sat in the stands last weekend and in the same week somehow got away with your rant at Newcastle. Don’t get me wrong – I’m glad you did. I have always defended a manager’s right to express his thought🍌s after a game.
“But stop it. Stop behaving like a fool in your technical area – and stop taking us all for fools. It’s not clever. It’s not necessary. And you can control it. You deser🌃ved your latest booking. Let’s make it the last one eh?”
Mikel Arteta did nothing wrong
The whole outburst again🍃st Mikel Arte🌳ta’s antics has gone a bit overboard, hasn’t it?
The Arsenal boss, or any manager f⛎or that matter, should be allowed to disagree with a decision on the field. There is nothing wrong in having your say as long you’re not abusive towards an official.
From what we could see, Arteta was not happy when it initially seemed like the referee was not going to book Kaoru Mitoma for a foul after showing a yellow card to Ben White for a similar offence. The Spaniard was seen waving h✃is hands in the air in disagreement.
The referee, Tim Robinson, decided to book Mitoma but then ran o꧋ver to the touchline to bandish a yellow card to the Arsenal manager too.
That, in our opinion, was completely unnecessary, and if this does not change, managers will end up missing at least four or five games everyꦬ 🌱season just because they showed some emotion on the touchline.