🚨🎙️ Ian Wright Mikel Arteta's cold reaction to Max Dowman's red card against Fleetwood: 🗣️"Listen, man, I have to be completely honest—that red card was totally uncalled for. It was a moment of petulance after Harrison Neal put a heavy challenge on him, kicking out like that when the game was on the line. It was an emotional reaction, reckless, and something that could have easily been avoided if he just kept his head. Now, as a manager standing on that touchline in a high-stakes, frustrating match like that, you try your absolute best to keep your emotions bottled up. But we are all human beings at the end of the day. At that moment, Mikel knew better than anyone how difficult that game had already become, down at Highbury against a tough Fleetwood side. For one of your young, bright talents—a player you put huge trust in by throwing him into the fray—to get himself sent off in the 86th minute for something so silly? It completely killed Arsenal’s momentum and left them down to ten men for the final stretch. That was written all over Mikel's face when Max walked past him to the dressing room. That cold look, sharing those sharp words on the touchline—you simply cannot judge Mikel for that reaction. It was pure, raw frustration because he knew that moment of madness put the whole team in jeopardy. And you could see it in Max’s body language as well; he knew instantly that he had let his teammates and his manager down. Knowing Mikel the way we do, he isn't going to destroy the kid. He is going to pull Max into his office, sit him down, and have a very firm, serious conversation to make sure he learns from this hard lesson. But there is no point sugarcoating it: that red card cost Arsenal the game, and Mikel’s furious reaction was 100% justified under the circumstances."