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Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta defends right to ‘respectful’ criticism of referees
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2/2/2025
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You got the outcome you wanted with the appeal on the red card and obviously a lot of other
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things have happened this week around the referee. I wanted to reflect really on some
00:17
of the things that have happened to him and his family but also Gary Neville has said
00:21
that the way you and obviously some Arsenal fans react to referee decisions in general
00:28
can, in an age of social media, fan the blames. How do you respond to that?
00:35
You know that I never comment about other opinions.
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But in terms of when a referee is getting death threats from people, I mean that's...
00:47
Dan, can I just have a minute? We did talk about this on Tuesday ahead of the game and
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around the game so it has been covered by Mikel so if we could move on that would be
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great, thanks.
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But full sympathy because I've been there and I'm there every time we don't win a game
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so I know what I'm talking about, I know how it feels and I know how much it affects you
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so full sympathy. I think I was very clear on my press conference before Girona that
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I reiterated that this has to be kicked off of football. So the biggest evolution of football
01:15
in the next five, ten years is that socially we bring the game to a different level in
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the press session and the way socially you communicate towards the people who are participating
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in the industry.
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Some Arsenal fans talk about corruption and conspiracy. Can you just clear up what your
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feelings are? Do you feel that Arsenal are refereed in the same way as everybody else?
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For sure. We all have to respect that. That doesn't mean that we don't have to defend
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our position or give our views in a respectful way, which is what we do. With the right channels
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and the right communication with the PGMOL or someone individual or the Premier League
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and that will continue to go because a lot of times that communication has been there
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to give very positive feedback about things that we can change to make it better and that
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has happened. There have been a few changes that have been proposed in the Premier League
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or the Premier League or the PGMOL so it's always very constructive what we are trying
02:19
to achieve here.
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