{"id":875659,"date":"2026-04-06T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/875659\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:00:18","slug":"arsenal-fc-gabriel-martinelli-learns-punishment-decision-for-referee-push-amid-red-card-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/875659\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal FC: Gabriel Martinelli learns punishment decision for referee push amid red card verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arsenal<\/p>\n

Martinelli was booked for his actions but Hackett believes the Arsenal forward should have been sent off.<\/p>\n

He said: “Referee Sam Barrott awarded a free-kick to Arsenal, Martinelli comes rushing in and he pushes Sam out of the way.<\/p>\n

“Now I’m sorry, Gabriel Martinelli showed total disrespect for the match official Sam Barrott in that situation.<\/p>\n

“Although Sam issued a yellow card, for me it’s a red card. You just cannot put your hands on a referee, let alone push him out of the way.<\/p>\n

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Gabriel Martinelli in action for Arsenal against Southampton<\/p>\n

Arsenal FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’ve got to look around the country, up and down, Saturday and Sundays where we have local park referees going out and doing their games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat message does that send out to our local park referees?<\/p>\n

“I thought Sam had a good game, he refereed the game well, but I think he let the refereeing community down by not sending off Gabriel Martinelli for pushing him at the award of a free-kick, so he could take the free-kick quickly.”<\/p>\n

Will Gabriel Martinelli face retrospective action?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is understood that Martinelli is set to avoid retrospective action from the Football Association (FA<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Due to Barrott taking action on-field, it has been widely reported that the Arsenal star will not face any further punishment by the FA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martinelli was booked for his actions but Hackett believes the Arsenal forward should have been sent off. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[1516,97,25014,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-875659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fa","tag-fa-cup","tag-gabriel-martinelli","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116357420254211537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875659","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=875659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}