A few days on and Declan Rice’s red card for Arsenal against Brighton & Hove Albion is still causing a lot of controversy, a decision that many simply can’t understand. Rice was handed his second yellow in the second half when Arsenal were 1-0 up, given Chris Kavanagh deemed that the midfielder had tried to kick the ball away to hold up play. The England international was beyond shocked when he saw red for the first time in his career, and he will now miss the north London derby once club football returns. And given Mikel Arteta will also be missing Mikel Merino because of injury, the Arsenal …
