Arsenal Vs Crystal Palace: Cazorla Gets A Faceful Of Vanishing Spray

Referee's free-kick aid goes off in his hand.

The new season has brought new signings, new managers and new technological advances, including the addition of the infamous referee's vanishing spray to the officials' arsenal, as Santi Cazorla will now be painfully aware. As the referee in the first half of Arsenal's game against Palace went to mark out a key free-kick to the Gunners - with the score at 0-1 to the underdogs - a malfunction in the spray can led to the embarrassment of the Spanish attacking midfielder getting a faceful of the white spray, much to his disgust. https://vine.co/v/M3K7DIdlmZ5 Trust an English referee to show the problems with the stuff... https://twitter.com/samuelJayC/status/500691413278134272 Despite the free-kick amounting to nothing (possibly thanks to the taker's partial blindness) Arsenal shortly afterwards hit back at Palace to make it 1-1.
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