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[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

Well articulated 👏👏

[Colin MUFC🇮🇪🇵🇸 @colinmufc2]

Don’t think he has x to tag him but honestly could not have put this better myself 👏

Husam on @TFTerraceMedia @terryflewers

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[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@CaptStubble 😂😂😂😂 you forgot jail
Time

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@sandancer1892 @paddypower Anfield always packed real
Fans you have there

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@Adikastakes I think Saka is hated more at least Mbappe can fire back. Saka never respond.

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

This guy definitely must be jealous for not making it as a professional footballer. Talks down on every black men who has made it #ajknowsball

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@England Beyond football well done @BukayoSaka87 ❤️

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

Yet Arsenal are cry babies when you see this happening day in and out

[BeardedPTX @BeardedPTX]

@MooreRMFC Different teams, different standards

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@IanSZNian @Archivesznz Glad he left because they would have ended up doing a damage. He was their target from beginning. These are men who probably had a spliff and a drink before the match.

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@dejiwashacked @AJKNOWSBALL17 Digital footprint everyone should see this @theshadeborough how haven’t you posted this @BouncerPD

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@Neybriel20 @Craaaque How is this funny that’s literally inhumane to think
This is funny

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@talkSPORT Literally why wasn’t Aston Villa invited on how they beat Brighton

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@Nick___Collins This is the same tackle that took out Luke Shaw. Arsenal play worst footbal what about the other team they’re playing

[Dougie Critchley @DougieCritchley]

The delight with which people reacted to 16 year old Max Dowman's red card is a bit uncomfortable.

Yes he shouldn't react like that, and I'm sure other sides will be looking to push him when he's back...

But the challenge from Harrison Neal is a really nasty one, and speaks to Dowman's quality. He and other flair players need to be protected.

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@Canyouhearthed1 @HJJ92_ Dumb is your mother who should have swallowed you

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@talkSPORT I am glad they didn’t last season Mansfield owner family and team didn’t do pitch invasion they were graceful. You won but come one now

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@JerseySpur5 @oborzilnorbert2 Arsenal players aren’t the only ones disgruntled about this. A lot of pundits have questioned why Arteta don’t give him more minutes. Clearly this is a perfect example of managing him he knows him
Best.

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@Josh73426623 Scissoring that was a bad tackle , same tackle that took Luke Shaw out. You might hate Arsenal worse grown men charging for a 16year old. One being a convicted rapist who done time

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

“That is brilliant leadership from Arsenal” 🗣️ Karl Robinson reacts to Arsenal’s decision to appeal Max Dowman’s red card from last night's match against Fleetwood.

[Where is Wally @Teeshani20]

@AATalksBall I promise you whatever brand that try work with him I will be dropping the video. You will stay a tik toker such a disgusting human being have empathy after hearing that story Saka read you think it’s time to mock. Digital footprint is a bastard because you close doors on urself

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Max Dowman: some thoughts. A little bit of understanding and support would not go amiss for a targeted teenager who wants to play the game the right way, who doesn’t roll around on the ground when struck by a bad challenge, and he gets hit by a few. Officials take note. Coaches take note. There’s a balance with young talents of toughening them up physically and mentally while protecting them. There's a balance between admonishment for a mistake and encouragement to learn.

Everyone wants to see Dowman fulfil his huge potential and develop into a major player for Arsenal and, eventually, England. Dowman is a special young talent, still only 16, still with the ink drying on his GCSE papers. He's still a kid, still learning. There have been (premature) calls for Dowman to be fast-tracked into England Under-21s, even the seniors. A month ago Thomas Tuchel and Lee Carsley conferred on Dowman and sensibly agreed his development would best be served by games with the Under-19s. “Max is always in the conversation because of his talent,” Carsley said.

That talent has seen Dowman become the Premier League’s youngest ever goalscorer, become the youngest player in the Champions League, and also get targeted. He gets a kicking, nine times in an Under-19s international against Spain last year. On returning to Arsenal, Dowman was encouraged by his manager Mikel Arteta to learn from Bukayo Saka about the art of dealing with such aggression. It was all about avoiding contact and “to learn when to release the ball”. Arteta also praised Dowman’s “football IQ” with the “super smart” way he makes decisions, praise indeed. It’s impressive in one so young.

His two red cards this month, one for England Under-19s against the USA behind closed doors in Marbella and now for Arsenal against Fleetwood Town, need placing in context. Trend or blip? Dowman, who usually has a composed temperament, suffered a number of robust challenges from the USA when he snapped and put in a strong challenge of his own. Some of those present in the game felt it was only a yellow. Dowman's not a petulant player, but his frustration spilled over at the aggression put in on him.

Similar to last night. There were some robust League Two challenges going in from Fleetwood players on the English champions' winger, testing his temperament, and after 85 minutes he reacted. The focus was on his silly kick out towards Harrison Neal, a soft red but still a red under the Laws, when the focus should also have been on Neal’s challenge which could have injured Dowman. No card was issued against Neal.

Michael Salisbury is an experienced referee, 16 years on the list, including now five years in the Premier League. Like all officials, Salisbury has a duty of care to all players to ensure they are not put at risk by bad challenges. Neal got the ball but the force and pace of his follow-through endangered Dowman, whose standing foot was momentarily trapped. Dowman, any player, deserved some protection from challenges like that.

He also deserved some compassion from Arteta. It’s one thing having strong words in passing if a senior player was trooping off, red-carded, down the tunnel. But Dowman is 16, probably still fuming with the tackle on him, and frustration at dismissal and inevitable feeling of letting the team down. Dowman didn’t need the most important person in his professional life, Arteta, to compound his misery with a frosty few words as he headed towards the tunnel. He's 16. He wasn't being petulant. He was reacting to a bad challenge.

Maybe Arteta was trying to make the point again about Dowman having to withstand such tackles, and not reacting. Arteta told reporters after the game that he had spoken pre-match to Dowman and the other players of the need for emotional control in such an intense occasion.

Fair enough, Dowman will learn. Whatever Arteta's frustration, it felt harsh and small-minded by such a successful, established manager. Officials take note too. It’s worth recalling that Arteta’s club contacted the authorities when they felt Saka was being targeted with bad challenges. Talents - all players - deserve protection. #AFC