Football laws are making PGMOL and IFAB look like 'village idiots' after controversial Arsenal and Southampton red cards

David Luiz and Jan Bednarek received controversial red cards for giving away penalties for Arsenal and Southampton, respectively, earlier this week.

Both players made unintentional contact to deny goalscoring opportunities, however, the 'double jeopardy rule', which stops someone from conceding a penalty AND being sent off, should have come into effect.

But following VAR checks in Arsenal's 2-1 defeat to Wolves and Southampton's 9-0 hammering at Manchester United, Luiz and Bednarek were deemed not to have made an attempt to play the ball.

And Jordan insists the current laws in football are making the International Football Association Board and Professional Game Match Officials Board look like 'village idiots'

He told talkSPORT: "It must be very clear to people in the game that an unintentional foul in the penalty box results in players being sent off, that's a clear rule.

"It'll be amongst the big rules that football players and football managers have to contend with.

"Why aren't people at the beginning of the season saying, 'have you seen this bloody rule? We've got to play this season, if one of our players unintentionally creates a situation in the penalty box, not only are we going to get a penalty we're going to get our player sent off… that's a ridiculous rule!'

"But you don't hear that because there is not enough study or professionalism around how the game shapes up before these circumstances manifest themselves.

"What we get to do is sit there and go, this is newsworthy, this creates a situation, this is ludicrous.

"What it does is it makes the PGMOL, it makes IFAB look like village idiots because not only have we got a VAR, which isn't being deployed properly at all to supposedly help referees, we've got rules that diminish the integrity of the game.

"This is not Willy Young pulling down Paul Allen in the 1980 FA Cup final where everybody thought that was GBH [Grievous Bodily Harm].

"This is an unintentional situation where players come across another player. "

Despite the frustration, Jordan reckons it would be unfair to change any football laws during the season.

He added: "This is a situation where the law is an ass because you've got a double jeopardy or a double whammy.

"The consequence for an unintentional situation should be solely the penalty. That is the punitive effect of the punishment.

"When you send someone off for an unintentional event then you're starting to look at the ridiculous nature of how this law operates.

"The challenge I've got and we've put this circumstance into a prism into other areas; one the offside rule and the other the handball rule.

"The challenge I have is what is worse; allowing a very poor law to stay in place and not changing it or changing the dynamics of how a season looks with people getting the benefit of it operating one way for half a season and the benefit of it operating for the other half of the season?

"I'm not in the camp, irrespective of whether the law is an ass, of saying if you start the season with a set of rules and set laws then you have to stay with them and continue even though some of these laws are challenging and changing the whole fabric of football.

"In my view, an unintentional foul should not result [in a red card]… not where you're debating about the subjectivity of whether there was intent, everyone could see it was unintentional."

talkSPORT host Simon Jordan believes football's laws are damaging the integrity of the game.