Wenger calls for ‘ethics committee’

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has hit out at the current disciplinary system in English football and wants an “ethics committee” established to over-rule referees.

The Football Association’s current rules state that a player can not be disciplined retrospectively if any of the match officials at that game saw the incident in question.

That policy caused outrage last month when Mario Balotelli’s studs-up challenge on Alex Song went unpunished after at least one of the four officials at the game saw the incident, but referee Martin Atkinson failed to act.