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From teamtalk.com…

Arsene Wenger has criticised Bolton manager Sam Allardyce over what he described as putting “unbelievable pressure” on referee Andy D’Urso.

Allardyce was widely reported before Saturday’s 2-2 draw issuing a thinly-veiled warning to Essex official D’Urso that, in his view, referees generally “showed a huge bias towards top teams” and that Arsenal “regularly intimidated referees”.

Arsenal manager Wenger told the London Evening Standard: “I don’t like the way Allardyce prepared that game with the referee. He put him under unbelievable pressure.”

– Arsene, four words: Don’t. wanna. hear. it.

The ref didn’t blow this one, any more than the ref blew it a couple of weeks back when Toure’s own goal produced a draw.