Arsène Wenger is braced to receive a touchline ban after being charged with misconduct by the Football Association following the incident at the Emirates stadium.
Wenger is alleged to have used “abusive and/or insulting words towards the fourth official” following the referee Jon Moss’s decision to award Burnley a penalty. Having been dismissed from the technical area for that incensed reaction, the Arsenal manager then tried to push Taylor out of the way when the official informed him that he was not allowed to watch the game play out from the corridor of the tunnel.
“It is further alleged that following his dismissal from the technical area, his behaviour in remaining in the tunnel area and making physical contact with the fourth official amounted to improper conduct,” said a statement from the FA.
He has until 6pm (GMT) on Thursday to respond to the charge of misconduct.
The Frenchman apologised for his actions and, on that basis, is not expected to contest the charge by Thursday’s deadline of 6pm. “I regret everything,” he said after Arsenal’s 2-1 win, secured with an even later penalty which the manager had watched elsewhere on television. “I should have shut up, gone in and gone home. I apologise for that.
“Look, it was nothing bad. I said something that you hear every day in football. Overall, nine times out of 10 you are not sent to the stand for that. If I am, I am, and I should have shut up completely. I was quite calm the whole game, more than usual. But just in the last two or three minutes …” Asked about the push on Taylor, Wenger added: “I was sent to the stands. I didn’t know if I was sent to the stands, but I was sent out. I thought I could watch it from the corridor, you know.”
In 2012 (a similar case to Arsène's), then-Newcastle manager Alan Pardew was fined £20,000 and given a two-match touchline ban for pushing an assistant referee during a game against Tottenham.
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