Jack Wilshere escapes action over bust-up with Kevin Mirallas

 
"Jack Wilshere for simply being an aggravating and extremely over-hyped individual," says Anthony Lombardi
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17 April 2013

The Football Association has decided to take no action over the tunnel bust-up between Jack Wilshere and Kevin Mirallas during last night's stormy Premier League clash at Arsenal.

Mirallas sparked a half-time confrontation at the Emirates Stadium when the Everton midfielder appeared to squirt water at Wilshere as the players made their way off the field.

Wilshere, just back from a six-week injury lay-off, reacted angrily and Everton players stepped in to prevent a direct confrontation.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said of the spat, which was quickly contained: "I don't know about it, but if it was (on television), then very soon everybody will know about it - and I will know about it as well. It was all right in the dressing room."

The Gunners boss, though, felt referee Neil Swarbrick could have taken a stronger line during the game as Everton utilised all their physical qualities to keep alive slim hopes of gate-crashing the top four.

There were several hefty challenges from the visitors, with midfielder Darron Gibson fortunate not to be sent off for twice pole-axing Theo Walcott.

Wenger said: "I felt that in the first half the referee didn't deal at all well with the intimidating physical challenges, but that we responded well to the physicality.

"It was detrimental to the fluency of our game, but we kept going, had good concentration."

Wenger added: "But that is part of the game. We had to deal with that."

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