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This is really poor by @FA. The governing body is supposed to protect players. It should be disputing this regulatory commission verdict by members drawn from the FA judicial panel. Max Dowman could have suffered a bad injury to his standing leg from a dangerous challenge which went unpunished. Arsenal 16-year-old shouldn’t have reacted but his frustration was understandable. Some other players might have rolled around and ensured a bad challenge was punished. Dowman didn’t. He doesn’t stay down. The FA should have shown some understanding towards Dowman. Instead, it has suspended him for three games. FA priorities all wrong: tolerating a poor challenge and some weak refereeing but punishing a kid who objected to a bad challenge that could have dealt him a serious injury. Protect players. #AFC

This is what happens when you play bad (really bad) and the referee's dodgy and there's no VAR. Can't use that to deflect from the fact that we didn't deserve anything from the game. But the decisions. Absolutely terrible from the officials. Poor day for us. Poor performance, poor refereeing, and ill-tempered opponent that got protected from the get go.

🚨Mikel Arteta was pissed after Max Dowman got sent off