Arteta digs at Premier League officiating, accusing the inconsistency

Arsenal Baas Mikel Arteta has taken a swipe at the Premier League official, and accuses the League of Inconsistency when it comes to applying the rules.

The Gunners have shown five red cards this season, the joint of each team in the top flight, level with Ipswich Town.

Several of that dismissal led to controversy, where Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard were both sent to postpone the restart in the campaign.

Arteta believes that his players were punished hard at the start of the season, only for the interpretation of the rules to change as the campaign progressed.

The Spaniard said: “The rules at the start of the season when we were punished and after 15 games were very different.”

Hopefully we will have a number of new rules for some games next season and then change them again. That would be great if possible. Especially for all teams at least the same rules. '

In August Rice received his marching orders against Brighton after he had kicked the ball away.

Arsenal was eventually held into a 1-1 draw by the seagulls led by a goal for the 49th minute of the midfielder who sent away.

Only three weeks later, Trossard was also sent for kicking the ball away when the Gunners dropped more points in a 2-2 draw with Manchester City.

William Saliba and Myles-Lewis Skelly also saw red in a frustrating season for Arsenal, whose title challenging ended last week.

Arteta has praised new liverpool champions and said: 'It's good that they had no distraction.

'The good thing is that they had them on the field all the time, which is something very positive. And it is a club, in the last 10 or 15 years they have been consistent, they fight for trophies, win big trophies and win the Champions League. So they are used to that.

'Nobody should be surprised because they have the level and they made it because they have done many things very, very well. So they deserve to be a champion. '

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