{"id":691491,"date":"2026-01-12T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:15:12","slug":"liverpool-could-try-to-sue-arsenal-over-controversial-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691491\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool could try to sue Arsenal over controversial incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit: Imago<\/p>\n

\"Harri <\/p>\n

Mon 12 January 2026 13:10, UK <\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s feud with Arsenal could continue off the pitch after Gabriel Martinelli clashed with Conor Bradley at the Emirates Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is according to former PGMOL chief and ex-FIFA referee, Keith Hackett<\/a>, who exclusively told Football Insider<\/strong> that Martinelli could face further sanction<\/a> after the news of the Liverpool<\/a> star\u2019s long-term injury.<\/p>\n

Bradley is now sidelined for the foreseeable future<\/a> at Anfield, having to undergo surgery despite avoiding an ACL injury, and the Reds are understandably furious over the situation.<\/p>\n

This has all emerged after Mikel Arteta<\/a>\u2018s winger attempted to lift the injured player off the pitch, having also dropped the football on him, with emotions bubbling over in North London.<\/p>\n

While Hackett believes Martinelli is not fully to blame<\/a> for thinking that Bradley was feigning injury, some supporters are adamant that the player caused more damage with his actions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Liverpool could take off-pitch action after Conor Bradley blow<\/p>\n

In added time on Saturday, 10 January, Bradley was seriously hurt while trying to make a clearance, only to be thrown about by his opponent, angering the Liverpool team.<\/p>\n

Gary Neville<\/a> was even surprised that none of Bradley\u2019s teammates started a fight with the Arsenal<\/a> man, and the game\u2019s main talking point has only continued into the following week.<\/p>\n

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With the news that Arne Slot<\/a> will be without another player for a long period, the Anfield faithful are out for blood, and Hackett has suggested that there could be a legal issue for all parties.<\/p>\n

According to the former PGMOL<\/a> boss, it would not be the first time recently that a player has been taken to court over an injury in football, with the same being mooted in this situation. <\/p>\n

Keith Hackett has warned Arsenal over Gabriel Martinelli\u2019s actions<\/p>\n

Hackett, exclusively speaking to Football Insider<\/strong> on The Final Whistle<\/a>, said: \u201cI\u2019ve been involved recently in court cases, where one player takes another player to court on the basis that an injury has ruined their career. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is always that risk, and a club could always try to sue a player because they\u2019ve lost their player. It\u2019s a good point to raise because, in football as a whole, the players have a duty of care towards their opponents. <\/p>\n

\u201cCould the referee have got in earlier? What\u2019s surprising is that some people didn\u2019t realise how serious the injury was, because there wasn\u2019t an overreaction.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Mon 12 January 2026 13:10, UK Liverpool\u2019s feud with Arsenal could continue off the pitch after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[161,8928,94,25014,2696,179,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-691491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-conor-bradley","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-gabriel-martinelli","12":"tag-keith-hackett","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115883260476888448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}