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“Let’s play with a stopwatch.” Arsenal manager criticizes new Premier League rules
Mikel Arteta / Photo: © Mike Hewitt / Staff / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta jokingly said that because of the new rules, the coaching staff must go to matches with a stopwatch.
Since the new season of the English Premier League, referees have been ordered to crack down on time-consuming, which has led to an increase in the number of yellow cards. In the first two rounds, the judges discharged 14 “maids” for this reason. So, for example, the defender Takehiro Tomiyasu in the Crystal Palace match on Wednesday received a warning for dragging out the time when throwing in the ball from out.
— I don’t know exactly how long he kept the ball. I was told that 23 seconds, but in my opinion, 8 seconds. Probably, we will play now with a stopwatch.
The new rules are one thing, and their application is quite another, but we are adapting, – quotes the words of Arteta BBC Sport.
After a second warning for a foul in the 67th minute, Tomiyasu received a red card and was sent off.
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