Souness understands Arsenal manager Arteta's VAR rant

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11 Nov 2023 • 5:24 PM MYT
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Liverpool legend Graeme Souness understands Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta's VAR rant.

Arteta was fuming after the Newcastle winner awarded to Anthony Gordon.

Souness wrote for the Daily Mail: "It's all very well for people to say, 'Arteta's let his great club down because they have a reputation for class' but I don't see it like that. Yes, for me Arsenal have always been one of the classiest clubs. But I saw Arteta (right) as a man whose frustrations were so enormous that he just couldn't deal with it in the cold, calculated way that all the experts seem to think he should have done.

"Those criticising him do not seem to have considered the bewildering rationale that lay behind allowing that goal to stand. Please answer me the most significant question, which no one appeared to ask last weekend. Why did Gabriel, a big, strong 6ft 3in centre back, not put his head on a ball, a yard off his goal line when it was there at a perfect height for him?

"For one very obvious reason. Because he was pushed. It was as plain as the nose on your face and would have been pure common sense to anyone who's actually played the game. But, of course, these so-called 'video officials' haven't. They don't know how to interpret the replays they are watching."