Arsenal pair escape bans, as Gunners brace for City collision

Referee Andre Marriner, Kieran Gibbs and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all let off after red card chaos

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THE FA has announced that neither Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain nor Kieran Gibbs will serve any ban following the shambolic refereeing mix-up at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

In one of the most extraordinary incidents in Premier League history, ref Andre Marriner showed Gibbs a straight red card after a goal-line handball that he had nothing to do with him. It was Gibb's Arsenal teammate, Oxlade-Chamberlain, who leapt to his left to push an Eden Hazard shot round the post with his hand, and he admitted as much to Marriner as the over-zealous official reached for his pocket.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.