Martin Keown questions Sky Sports and Gary Neville over Arsenal coverage
Martin Keown has expressed his dismay at Sky Sports' coverage of the north London derby, appearing to criticise Gary Neville for his commentary.
Thursday night saw Tottenham Hotspur demolish Arsenal 3-0, stealing the momentum in the race to finish fourth and qualify for the Champions League next season. Harry Kane and Heung-min Son got the goals to give Spurs an emphatic victory, with Keown's former team, Arsenal, conceding an early and seeing defender Rob Holding shown a red card for a "stupid' foul in the first half.
While much of the criticism was directed at Mikel Arteta and his players, Keown took issue with ex- Manchester United right-back Neville, Sky's coverage and referee Paul Tierney's decisions - or lack thereof. Speaking on talkSPORT, the Gunners legend bemoaned one incident by saying: "If you look at Ben Davies it's like a pincer tackle and he tries to grab [Bukayo] Saka away and then nothing becomes of it.
"Maybe Sky didn't really want to make much of that and maybe that was the commentary team going one way rather than the other... I think the penalty was soft.
"Nobody really referred to it but last night I thought there were quite a lot of replays every time an Arsenal player made a foul. Suddenly you don't really see too many replays when there was a Spurs player that brought one down. That was a key incident, Saka was away on goal there."
Having been questioned about his views by presenter Jim White, Keown double down by affirming: "I think Gary Neville was very quick to say that was a penalty in real time. If he was a full-back, in real time he would have been unhappy if it was given against him. I'm saying he was very quick to say that was a penalty."
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