{"id":2565,"date":"2026-04-05T17:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:01:33","slug":"gabriel-martinelli-shoves-referee-in-disgraceful-reaction-during-fa-cup-defeat-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Martinelli shoves referee in ‘disgraceful’ reaction during FA Cup defeat | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Martinelli was booked late on during the incident (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arsenal star Gabriel Martinelli escaped a red card despite shoving the referee in his side\u2019s FA Cup defeat to Southampton.<\/p>\n

The Gunners crashed out of the competition on Saturday night after a 2-1 defeat at St Mary\u2019s, undone by Shea Charles\u2019 brilliant finish five minutes from full-time.<\/p>\n

Arsenal pushed for an equaliser late on with 16-year-old Max Dowman his side\u2019s best outlet all night. <\/p>\n

In injury time, the teenager drove forward again before being brought down just inside the Southampton half.<\/p>\n

Referee Sam Barrott immediately blew for a free kick but was shoved out of the way by Martinelli who was eager for it to be taken as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

Unsurprinsigly, Barrott pulled the Gunners forward back showing him a yellow card and giving him a ticking off for his trouble.<\/p>\n

Arsenal had opportunities to force extra time late on with Noni Madueke firing over and Riccardo Calafiori heading clear of the bar.<\/p>\n

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Martinelli\u2019s conduct was blasted by frustrated supporters online with one writing: \u2018Martinelli, if you want to show your hunger and readiness, do it with the ball not by pushing the referee or looking lost on the pitch.\u2019<\/p>\n

Another added: \u2018Gabriel Martinelli pushing referee away is disgraceful,\u2019 while another wrote:\u00a0\u2018Martinelli pushes the referee out of the way but is only given a yellow card. Surely, that\u2019s a red?\u2019<\/p>\n

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Martinelli was booked late on during the incident (Picture: Getty) Arsenal star Gabriel Martinelli escaped a red card despite shoving the referee in his side\u2019s FA Cup defeat to Southampton. The Gunners crashed out of the competition on Saturday night after a 2-1 defeat at St Mary\u2019s, undone by Shea Charles\u2019 brilliant finish five minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}