{"id":292008,"date":"2023-09-25T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=292008"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:35:15","slug":"ian-ladyman-labels-nkeitahs-challenge-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/ian-ladyman-labels-nkeitahs-challenge-disgusting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Ladyman labels Nkeitah&apos;s challenge &apos;disgusting&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Eddie Nketiah&#8217;s &#8216;disgusting&#8217; tackle was &#8216;as bad as anything I&#8217;ve seen this season&#8217;, IAN LADYMAN tells Mail Sport&#8217;s &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217;&#8230; plus, find out what he and CHRIS SUTTON think about Rodri and Malo Gusto&#8217;s reds<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eddie Nketiah could have been shown a red for a challenge on\u00a0Guglielmo Vicario<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rodri and Malo Gusto were shown straight red cards on a lively weekend<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another Premier League weekend is in the books and unsurprisingly there were a number of refereeing decisions the fans have been left arguing over.<\/p>\n<p>The north London derby had its usual share of controversy while Man City and Chelsea were both on the receiving end of red cards.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Kicking Off! podcast, Ian Ladyman and Chris Sutton had their say on the performances of the officials and it made for another lively debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now, I&#8217;ll tell you what&#8217;s the problem, referees are a problem,&#8217; said Mail Sport&#8217;s Football Editor Ladyman. &#8216;I tend to see myself as broadly supportive of referees.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This brought a laugh from Sutton, who responded: &#8216;do you just think about your last two sentences then? I&#8217;ll tell you what the problem is. Referees are the problem. I support referees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/14\/75810665-12557819-image-a-12_1695647645345.jpg\" height=\"355\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ian Ladyman was far from impressed with the refereeing performances this past weekend<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Look, I never ever, ever suggested I was gonna come on the show and be consistent,&#8217; Ladyman replied. &#8216;I do have sympathy for referees generally. I think it&#8217;s a very, very difficult job. However, this weekend felt like a low to me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And it was a challenge by Arsenal&#8217;s Eddie Nketiah that Ladyman was most perturbed by.<\/p>\n<p>The striker flew in late on Spurs goalkeeper Vicario with his boot very high.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t make contact but it could have been nasty if he had and Ladyman was shocked that he remained on the pitch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/14\/75810687-12557819-image-a-13_1695647664876.jpg\" height=\"534\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Nketiah was lucky to escape a red card for this challenge on\u00a0Guglielmo Vicario<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m quite careful what I say here for once,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Nketiah for Arsenal, the challenge on the Tottenham goalkeeper was as bad as anything I&#8217;ve seen this season, and it doesn&#8217;t even go to VAR. It was disgusting, that challenge. Disgusting.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m not with you,&#8217; Sutton responded. &#8216;I mean, you&#8217;ve gone overboard disgusting. He didn&#8217;t really clean him out. He didn&#8217;t catch him. You&#8217;re talking about intent, aren&#8217;t you? I&#8217;m not suggesting.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ladyman replied: &#8216;I&#8217;m not gonna sit here and suggest that Nketiah had any intent in his mind. I don&#8217;t know that. And I would hope that he didn&#8217;t. But that challenge, it was shocking. And that is the type of challenge that, when it goes wrong like that, can lead to devastating injuries.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;You know why the goalkeeper didn&#8217;t get injured? Because he was lucky. He was lucky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/14\/75810671-12557819-image-a-18_1695649908632.jpg\" height=\"352\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Sutton wasn&#8217;t convinced that there was any malice behind Nketiah&#8217;s foul<\/p>\n<p>Sutton continued to disagree, saying: &#8216;Nketiah knew what he was doing. He missed him on purpose.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why is that not going to VAR?&#8217; Ladyman asked. &#8216;Why has that not gone to VAR? Why have they not even had a look at that?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mikel Arteta should have Nketiah into his office this morning, sit him down and show him video and say to him, don&#8217;t ever do that again. Do not ever do that again, because that I am, as you can tell quite cross about that challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You cannot, players cannot get away with that type of stuff. They cannot get away with that. And because of the failures of the officials at yesterday&#8217;s game, that tackle now will be watched by people, and that&#8217;s, I suppose, say that really obvious thing, it&#8217;ll be watched by kids and people will think it&#8217;s okay. And it&#8217;s not okay. It is not okay.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The pair also disagreed on the straight red card shown to Rodri, who was dismissed for grabbing Morgan Gibbs-White by the neck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/14\/75810693-12557819-image-a-14_1695647673016.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rodri was shown a straight red card after putting his hands on the neck of Morgan Gibbs-White<\/p>\n<p><span>Ladyman said: &#8216;So Rodri got sent off. I think it&#8217;s borderline because they&#8217;re just they&#8217;re barging each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He grabs Morgan Gibbs white by the throat,&#8217; Sutton responded. &#8216;He did. You were in a tapas bar in Madrid, okay? He grabbed him by the throat.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ladyman did somewhat back down, saying: &#8216;I wasn&#8217;t totally convinced about that one, but I can see why he was sent off.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Malo Gusto also saw red for Chelsea for a &#8216;reckless challenge&#8217; on\u00a0Lucas Digne and both men agreed that it was harsh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/14\/75811159-12557819-image-a-15_1695648239550.jpg\" height=\"398\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Malo Gusto was also shown his marching orders as Chelsea suffered another defeat<\/p>\n<p>Ladyman said: &#8216;Malo Gusto is sent off for what in your day would have been applauded as a brilliant tackle. Takes the ball first, and then there&#8217;s a bit of kind of follow through.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span>Sutton replied: &#8216;I&#8217;ve got sympathy for the referees because these are subjective calls. So we&#8217;ve disagreed on a couple. I agree with you on the Gusto one.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They also spoke on the handball incidents that took place over the weekend, Luton and Arsenal both awarded ones that some disagreed with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the Luton one, Ladyman said: &#8216;Joao Gomes of Wolves, the ball hits his leg, deflects up onto his hand, which I think is, which I&#8217;m pretty sure, by the letter of the law is not a handball if it deflects off another part of your body. So explain that one to me.<\/p>\n<p>Sutton agreed before questioning spot-kick given to Arsenal for Cristian Romero&#8217;s handball in the area.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;What I don&#8217;t like honestly about the penalty award is, I think Romero was last ditch,&#8217; he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;He&#8217;s is a good defender, Romero, but he&#8217;s reckless at times. But he was trying to block the shot from Ben White and naturally, if you&#8217;re doing that, you can&#8217;t think in that moment about putting his hands behind his back, he&#8217;s thinking about doing his job properly. His arm came up in the in the motion as he was doing that. 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