Arsenal are breaking the rules! - David James slams VAR after Gabriel header - video Dailymotion

David James believes Arsenal's equaliser should have been disallowed due to a foul on Ederson

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00:00And my concern is that the rules were changed, VAR were called upon for the Gabrielle header

00:09and they saw that Martinelli hadn't made a foul and for the life of me, and I've been

00:14sitting in my room this morning, slow-mo rewinding going through it, Martinelli makes no attempt

00:21to go for the ball, in fact he steps into Ederson to stop Ederson from going for the

00:25ball and that is a type of action that has been outlawed, something Arsenal were doing

00:31a lot last season and they've got away with it. So I don't know how VAR didn't see it.

00:35If you look at the opportunity that Gabrielle had I think a few minutes earlier from the

00:39corner, the previous corner, exactly the same thing with Calafiera blocking off Guaviol

00:46in the same way and it's systematic for Arsenal. And there's part of me that says we wouldn't

00:52have had the game that we had had they not done it, but the real part of the game is

00:56that this has been outlawed and they're still doing it and getting away with it. And the

01:00question then is for VAR or the officials is what are you going to do about it? Because

01:05against lesser teams they're going to end up winning games by effectively breaking the

01:09rules.