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IT'S BRAWL OVER FOR DERMOT AT EMIRATES
10/02/2007
DERMOT GALLAGHER has been red-carded for Arsenal's game with Wigan tomorrow after he failed to stop the 50-man brawl between QPR and China's Olympic squad.
The Banbury official had been scheduled to take charge of the Emirates Stadium clash.
But Premier League referees' chief Keith Hackett intervened and ordered Gallagher to be replaced by Phil Dowd.
Hackett is understood to fear that Gallagher would not be in the right mind to take charge of another match in the aftermath of the shocking scenes at QPR's Harlington training ground on Wednesday.
Two QPR players, on-loan Chelsea midfielder Jimmy Smith and Pat Kanyuka, received death threats from an alleged London-based triad gang in the wake of the vicious clashes which left China's Zheng Tao knocked out and with a fractured jaw.
PS. A comminuted fracture in the mandible.
Last night the Chinese team management announced that seven members of the squad were being sent back to Beijing as punishment for their part in proceedings.
Hackett believes that allowing Gallagher to take charge of the Premiership clash would mean he was the focus of attention, at the expense of the game itself.
The decision however, will not do the experienced official any favours after a difficult year.
Gallagher was dropped from the Premiership list for two months after missing then-Manchester City defender Ben Thatcher's elbow assault on Portsmouth's Pedro Mendes in August.
So far this season he has taken charge of just nine Premiership games, the lowest number of all the experienced referees on the top-flight list. |
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