{"id":394698,"date":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394698\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:16:08","slug":"david-moyes-slams-michael-keane-red-in-9-man-everton-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394698\/","title":{"rendered":"David Moyes slams Michael Keane red in 9-man Everton draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everton<\/a> manager David Moyes was furious at the “ridiculous” decision which saw Michael Keane<\/a> sent off for pulling the hair of Wolves’ Tolu Arokodare<\/a> in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n

Goalscorer Keane was shown a red card after tugging at the striker’s long hair in an aerial challenge in the 83rd minute.<\/p>\n

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Jack Grealish<\/a> was then dismissed after two yellow cards — his first Premier League<\/a> red card — for dissent within three minutes, the second when he sarcastically applauded referee Tom Kirk, officiating in only his second top-flight game.<\/p>\n

Moyes was probably just as frustrated at the way his side allowed the league’s bottom side back into the game when 18-year-old Matheus Mane scored for the second successive match, but he took aim at the officials.<\/p>\n

“It is not violent, it is not forceful and it is not deliberate so all of those things I have said mean it shouldn’t have been a red card,” Moyes said after his team missed the chance to move to within three points of fourth place.<\/p>\n

“I think it was a really poor decision to send him to the screen in the first place. [Marc] Cucurella got his hair pulled [by Jo\u00e3o Neves<\/a> in the Club World Cup final] — violent conduct, a deliberate action, no problem with that.<\/p>\n

“But this was in the game, on a ball coming up and unless you have played the game you might not understand. I have been a centre-half and there is no way I am jumping to out-jump a big centre-forward and think: ‘By the way I am going to out-jump him and at the same time I am going to pull his hair.’<\/p>\n

“I don’t know anyone on the planet who is good enough to think that way when they are jumping up. I thought it was a ridiculous decision by the referee, but more by VAR. I thought the ridiculous bit came from VAR.<\/p>\n

Everton manager David Moyes argues with the referee after Michael Keane was given a red card.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

“It can’t be violent conduct for that. I just can’t see how that warrants a sending off. Why would that be a red card and we’re letting other things go. Ridiculous. Hopeless.”<\/p>\n

Moyes was less vocal on Grealish’s loss of composure, which will further deplete his already thin resources with Keane now banned for three matches.<\/p>\n

Asked whether it was something he needed to address, not only with the player but the rest of the squad, he added: “Already have done.”<\/p>\n

That Wolves boss Rob Edwards, whose team have turned a corner after 11 successive league defeats with five points from the last three matches, was disappointed they did not capitalise on their opponents’ self-destruction shows the change in mindset.<\/p>\n

“How the game ended with them being down to nine men, I was disappointed we didn’t capitalise more,” Edwards said. “We didn’t work them enough. We probably played into their hands.”<\/p>\n

Wolves remain 14 points from safety but Edwards is not giving up.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very difficult challenge for us but we will continue to fight, we have to,” he added. “We are professionals; we won’t roll over and we will continue to fight until the end of the 38th game. That’s all we can do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton manager David Moyes was furious at the “ridiculous” decision which saw Michael Keane sent off for pulling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-394698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}