{"id":1484,"date":"2026-04-05T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:02:30","slug":"gabriel-martinelli-criticized-for-total-lack-of-respect-after-shoving-referee-arsenal-star-should-have-been-sent-off-for-shoving-sam-barrott-during-fa-cup-defeat-at-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Martinelli criticized for &#8216;total lack of respect&#8217; after shoving referee; Arsenal star should have been sent off for shoving Sam Barrott during FA Cup defeat at Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p><span>The climax came in the 94th minute, after Shea Charles had given the home side the lead. While a free kick was awarded to the visitors, the striker tried to restart the game quickly and pushed the referee. Halsey was scathing in his assessment of the Brazilian&#8217;s behavior during the heated exchange. He said: \u201cReferee Sam Barrott awarded Arsenal a free kick, Martinelli rushed over and shoved Sam to push him away. I&#8217;m sorry, but Gabriel Martinelli showed a complete lack of respect towards referee Sam Barrott in this situation. Even though Sam gave him a yellow card, for me it&#8217;s a red card. You simply cannot put your hands on a referee, let alone push him. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The climax came in the 94th minute, after Shea Charles had given the home side the lead. While a free kick was awarded to the visitors, the striker tried to restart the game quickly and pushed the referee. Halsey was scathing in his assessment of the Brazilian&#8217;s behavior during the heated exchange. He said: \u201cReferee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}