Gary Neville calls for Arsenal’s request to call off north London derby to be REJECTED as he and Jamie Carragher accuse teams of taking advantage of the situation – but both insist the Gunners are not the only culprits
- Arsenal have made a request to postpone Sunday’s north London derby at Spurs
- The Gunners have lost four players to AFCON and Granit Xhaka to a red card
- Both Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher called for the request to be rejected
- The pundits claimed that clubs used Covid-19 as an excuse not to play fixtures
Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville has called for the Premier League to reject Arsenal’s request to postpone Sunday’s North London derby.
Meanwhile, Jamie Carragher slammed Premier League sides of taking advantage of football’s current Covid-19 crisis as he urged clubs to hand younger players opportunities.
Arsenal became the latest club to request a postponement on Friday after they submitted a request to call off Sunday’s crunch north London derby.
Arsenal have made a request to postpone Sunday’s north London derby against Tottenham
Mikel Arteta’s (pictured) Gunners played Liverpool away in the cup on Thursday night
Arsenal currently have one known Covid case – Martin Odegaard – and Granit Xhaka is suspended following his red card against Liverpool on Thursday.
However, Calum Chambers, Cédric Soares, Kieran Tierney, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Emile Smith Rowe and Bukayo Saka are all injury doubts for the game – an issue that has raised obvious suspicion at Tottenham.
Mikel Arteta is also without Arsenal’s Africa Cup of Nations contingent: Thomas Partey, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Mohamed Elneny and Nicolas Pepe.
Granit Xhaka (right) will miss the derby after receiving a red card for a challenge on Diogo Jota
The former players insisted that it was not a direct ‘dig’ at the Gunners but did urge clubs to…
Source : dailymail
