Full transcript of Kavanagh sending off Rice
REF: Referee Chris Kavanagh
AR1: Assistant referee one
RICE: Declan Rice (Arsenal)
Joel Veltman kicks Declan Rice, who gets in the way of the Brighton defender taking the free-kick.
AR1: "Remember it's Rice, he's already on one."
KAV: "Declan Rice has kicked the ball away."
AR1: "Just knocked it away, he's on a second."
REF: "Going to have no choice, mate."
AR1: "It's a second yellow mate."
REF: "I know, I've got no choice."
AR1: "Yeah, it's delaying the restart."
REF: "I know it is. And I'm going to have to deal with it, aren't I? I know, second yellow for me."
AR1: "Look after yourself."
Kavanagh then shows Rice the second yellow card and then a red.
REF: "I had no choice, he knocks the ball away. As he's about to kick it, he knocks the ball."
Rice then protests his innocence.
REF: "Yes you did, it's clear. Yes you did. I have no choice.
Kavanagh then calls over Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard
REF: "Martin [Odegaard, the Arsenal captain who he calls over] , Martin. I have no choice. He's put me... in an awful position."
REF TO RICE: "You did kick the ball."
RICE: "No I didn't."
REF: "You did. He [Rice, while speaking to Odegaard] has knocked the ball away. Dec, you need to go Dec, you need to go. I don't like it, I don't like it. But he's knocked the ball. He's kicked the ball. Dec, you need to go I'm afraid."
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