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Frustrated Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger called for the use of tennis-style challenges to combat dodgy decisions by blundering referees.

The Frenchman voiced the idea of clubs being given two video challenges per game, similar to the system used in tennis, where players get three challenges per set using Hawk-Eye graphics which plot the ball’s flight.

Wenger made the call after his stuttering side were forced to settle for a Premier League point at Sunderland.

Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas rescued the Gunners with an injury-time header after substitute Grant Leadbitter’s late strike put Roy Keane’s side ahead.

But Wenger was left to rue the second-half “goal” that never was, as Robin van Persie’s legitimate second-half effort was ruled out due by the officials in an error that would have been proved wrong by goal-line technology. Continue reading →