Arsenal star's brother gets bizarre red card for Basel as fans hail referee

'Hot blood runs in the family' 😂 Granit Xhaka's brother receives crazy red card for Basel

Trying to plead his case, the referee was having none of it and commanded the midfielder to walk back down the tunnel he just emerged from.VAR determined that the headbutt deserved a straight red card rather than a second yellow.

And fans were loving the course of action taken by the ref, with one Twitter user saying: “I’ve got a lot of time for incidents like this.”Xhaka was not pleased and even grabbed the refereeWhile a third tweeted: “This is proper VAR use. Not that PL’s wannabe VAR with ‘clear and obvious’ lies.” The Basel man is not the only member of the Xhaka family to have a penchant for moments of madness, with brotherSince signing for the Gunners in 2016, the Switzerland international has been sent off five times and accumulated a whopping 79 yellow cards.appears to have tamed the beast, though, with Xhaka keeping out of the referee’s attention too much this season.

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