Gary Neville claims that Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta’s touchline antics inspired Premier League rule change

Gary Neville believes that football's new rules about the behaviour of managers on the touchline have been inspired by Mikel Arteta's antics last season.

The Premier League, along with The FA, EFL and the referees’ governing body, PGMOL, released a new set of rules ahead of the new campaign.

The aim is to promote responsible behaviour from players, managers and coaches at matches.

As part of the rule changes, only one coach is allowed to stand at the front of the technical area at a time, with one other allowed to stand providing that they remain near the technical area seating.

Coaches can't use technology to challenge the decisions of a match official, while they must also remain within their own technical area during the match.

Under no circumstances will they be allowed to enter the pitch to confront a match official at half-time or full-time.

Meanwhile any occupant of the technical area who has been dismissed will not be allowed to sit in the stands, return to the field of play at any point or be involved in any post-match interviews.

The Premier League has seen numerous examples of managers overstepping the mark in recent years, with Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp both getting into trouble for their antics in the technical area.

However according to Neville, it's Arsenal boss Arteta who is the main culprit and may have played a key role in the need for change.

Speaking on The Overlap, Neville said: «I spoke to a non-league coach and they'd had this sort of briefing during pre-season about touchline behaviour.

»And he said that [Mikel] Arteta was a big reason why that was brought in, for last year's behaviour."

Arteta fell foul of the new rules during Sunday's Community Shield after he was booked by referee Stuart Atwell for