Roy Keane:

“I don’t understand that outrage about Arsenal and Mikel Arteta pulling players out of international duties; be it because of injury or caution, it’s nothing new.

We all saw Alex Ferguson do it year in year out with Manchester United; he wouldn’t play key players like Rooney, Rio and others for more than 45 mins and then pull them out by faking injury so they didn’t go for international duties or would pull them out when they were with their national teams. The evidence is littered on the Internet.

Mikel Arteta must do what he needs to do for caution purposes; they are competing for the treble, and they need all hands.”