DON’T GET COURT OUT SAYS WENGER

ARSENE WENGER has warned football must introduce video referees – or end up in the courts.

The Arsenal boss believes UEFA and FIFA must bring in technology to stop cheats ruining the game.

English football will start a £5million experiment in the FA Cup next season with ‘video assistant referees’ stationed on the touchline, in TV production trucks and also in a match centre watching a live feed.

It is the first step towards widespread video technology with many expecting it will be in place for the 2018 World Cup.

Wenger believes it cannot come soon enough after being outraged by Luis Suarez’s dive (below) to win a penalty for Barcelona in their comeback against Paris Saint-Germain, while Arsenal were wronged by a bad penalty decision during Tuesday’s defeat by Bayern Munich.

He claims it must be used in future or fans and TV companies will sue when decisions are wrong.

Wenger said: “Yes, honestly I’m believing that in the next five years if UEFA does not bring video in they could face legal action from television or from fans because they refuse to progress for the right decisions. “The fans and television companies pay a lot of money and they spoil the package because they don’t do the maximum to give a fair spectacle. “If they don’t go further, that is what will happen because we live in a society that is legalist and what people pay is more and more. That is what will happen if UEFA and FIFA don’t take that step to go for more justice. They can’t offer what we saw for us against Bayern or the night after, it is indefensible.”

It may sound like Wenger is getting his excuses in early ahead of tonight’s FA Cup quarter-final with non-League Lincoln.

But when asked whether losing was unthinkable, he smiled: “In football anything can happen.”

Petr Cech may play because regular cup-tie keeper David Ospina is nursing a niggle.

Emiliano Martinez has been drafted into the squad, but Cech is likely to be back as No.1.