Quote Originally Posted by cricketsi View Post
Also, actually quite hard to avoid the foul, especially when you have someone like Chamakh who is looking primarily to make contact with you to try and get a free kick and only if that fails, reluctantly to go in on goal.

I'm not convinced if the situation was reversed a Crystal Palace player would have been shown red.
It's easy, don't touch him and it's not a foul. But if he did that Chamakh would have been through on goal and we would have probably been back level at 1-1.

Right decision from Arteta to take the red, and also right decision from the ref to send him off.