Lewis-Skelly caught Doherty’s shin after which foot, and Oliver rapidly confirmed a pink card, with VAR deciding towards sending the referee to the pitchside monitor.
On the Premier League’s web site it says excessive, full and forceful contact on the ankle or above is “thought of harmful” and a “pink card”.
Alan Shearer, the competitors’s document goalscorer, mentioned the sending off was “one of many worst choices I’ve seen in a very long time”.
“As a referee you will get it fallacious on the pitch, you may see one thing which is wrong,” he informed NEWSTORN Radio 5 Stay.
Shearer added on NEWSTORN Match of the Day: “It ought to have been a yellow card, it’s a horrible determination. There was no pace, no depth, it was not endangering an opponent and was 90 yards from purpose, so by no means, ever a pink card.
“What worries me is there’s an assistant VAR and a VAR who’ve seen a number of replays and so they assume it’s severe foul play.”
Arsenal substitute Calafiori informed Sky Sports activities that “from the bench, it was clearly not a pink card”.
