Arsenal's Claims About Stoke City's Tactics

[pezinhoTHFC]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_4454712,00.html

Guess most of us have read / seen / heard Wenger's claims that Stoke City's players were deliberately fouling his players.

Just thought Id point you all in the direction of Sky Sports coverage of it - and in particular, to the public's comments under the story.

Some of the Arsenal comments are hilarious - especially considering that Robin Van Rental got himself sent off for a petulent, childish, immature lunge on Sorensen!

Just have a read and have a laugh!

 

[PT]

It's one of the reasons why Arsenal won't win much right now. They let Flamini go and have little fight in them for a scrap other than with underhand digs with fists.

I feel sorry for their flair players who do get targetted as they try to play football the way it's meant to be played. If only they had a lethal front man. If spurs played their kind of game WHL would be packed double as we'd be shooting for trophies every season. We're a bit away from that though, although the roots will always be inherant - it's in our DNA.

 

[hughy]

Someone needs to replay the Van Persie incident to that old, french ****. Double standards? I think so.

 

[TheChosenOne]

The Times put it nicely in todays paper...

Furious Arsene Wenger brands Stoke City 'cowards'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/arsenal/article5081556.ece

When the Arsehole going to give up his whinging ?

He only sees things one way, Adeybarndoor left a bootin during that match and RVP was disgusting with the forearm smash.

He also forgets stuff like the assault on Van Nistleroy against Man U a while back, the kicking out at Nani, and the disgraceful mass brawl against Chelsea in the Coca Cola final when Adybayor and Toure were sent off - for which both clubs were fined £100k.

Wengers teams have racked up in excess of 70 red cards under his management.

Myopic Wanker.

 

[Teemu]

Waaah fucking waaah.

 

[Stavi]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/article5084176.ece

good read

 

[TheChosenOne]

Arsenal have been found out.

They will get an easy win tonight with a Champs league ref giving away freeby fouls for simulation.

 

[Hoowl]

Pulis hits back
Manager's Comment

Posted on: Wed 05 Nov 2008


Most Managers up and down the country are very protective of their Football Clubs and that protection is usually at its height in "after game interviews", where we defend our team's performances and our players' mistakes in every way possible - from blaming referees not seeing players' indiscretions and so on. We have every angle covered.

In Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday evening Mr Wenger talked openly about Arsenal's encounter with Stoke, as being a "typical English encounter". He commended my team's organisation, my team's commitment and confessed that on the day Stoke City thoroughly deserved to win the game. Very open and very honest.

Over the weekend Arsenal have been criticised by the media over their commitment to not only our game, but also previous games they have been involved in.

In London 48 hours later and 150 miles away from Stoke-on-Trent, Mr Wenger changed tact and has tried to rewrite history. His comments about my team are there for everybody to read and certainly made me smile, along with I'm sure 27,000 supporters at the game, millions of TV viewers and the massed press who interviewed him after the game. Remember there was only one red card on Saturday and the last time I watched the game it certainly was not a Stoke City player who received it.

As for Rory Delap's challenges on Theo Walcott and Bacary Sanga - Rory is as honest and committed as they come, they were free kicks, but Rory would never purposely go out to injure a fellow professional - it's just not in Rory's nature. Don't forget not so long ago Rory was sitting in a hospital bed with a double fracture. Further as I recall the game Emmanuel Adebayor was booked for a chest-high challenge on Ryan Shawcross.

I and my Football Club have tremendous respect for Mr Wenger and Arsenal Football Club, but as Mr Wenger is such a learned professional and on a great day in American electoral history, I would like to remind him of Abraham Lincoln's great quotation, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."


Tony Pulis

 

[TheChosenOne]

Thats a good response by Pulis, Doc.

It shows Wenger for what he really is.

 

[Kendall]

Very good response. The tackle on Adebayor was poor, but that kind of thing happens in football.

The Walcott challenge was not bad at all, and it wouldn't have injured the average player. Walcott has a history of shoulder trouble and that's why he was sent off. The lad shouldn't be playing football if he can't fall correctly.

 

[worcestersauce]

I've said it before and I'll say it again this is about one thing and one thing only; arsene wenger trying to shift any blame away from his door where it belongs, he sub'd van persie and walcott against us and he dropped them for the game against stoke, absolutely his fault entirely..

..and for the record how can any manager complain about rough or nasty or dirty or criminally thuggish behaviour on a football pitch when he has emanual eboue in his squad, it just beggers belief.

Actually I've just read Pulis' response again and it is excellent isn't it.

 

[SpurSince57]

Just hypocritical twaddle. Stoke may make Allardyce's Bolton look like Brazil c. 1982, but I wouldn't call them a dirty side by any means. And as WS says, when you've got a player like Eboué in your side you have no room to talk. The same, to a slightly lesser extent, goes for Diaby—Wenger made a huge fuss when he got his ankle broken against Sunderland a couple of seasons ago, but was strangely quiet when Diaby busted Campo's foot. I don't recall Monkeyhead, Donkey, Dixon and Winterburn being shy of getting stuck in, either.

Great response from Tony Pulis.

Going off at a slight tangent, Benitez' comments about us lucking our win on Saturday are pretty rich considering the games tne Scousers have pinched at the last minute this season—or the CL and FA Cup finals, come to that. We got back into the Arsenal and Liverpool games partly because of unnecessary substitutions on Wenger's and Benitez' part taking the pressure off us—so don't blame the result of your shortcomings on others, boys.

 

[VegasII]

Pulis is a yiddo...

...& how lucky were Liverpool when they beat Chelsea by a dubious goal to get to Istanbul?

 

[dontcallme]

We certainly had an element of luck in our win against the scousers, Benitez pointing this out is not the same as him saying his side has never been lucky.

 

[Chris12345]

Just heard a clip of Redknapp on Radio 1 when asked what he thought of Wenger's claim that Stoke tried to injure his players...

"I don't know, I didn't see it"

:lol:

I can see why the press love him!

 

[worcestersauce]

Just heard a clip of Redknapp on Radio 1 when asked what he thought of Wenger's claim that Stoke tried to injure his players...

"I don't know, I didn't see it"

:lol:

I can see why the press love him!

:rofl:

 

[chivers!]

Just heard a clip of Redknapp on Radio 1 when asked what he thought of Wenger's claim that Stoke tried to injure his players...

"I don't know, I didn't see it"

:lol:

I can see why the press love him!

Need to start an 'Arryisms thread for gems like this and 'Just fucking run around a bit'.

 

[yanno]

as WS says, when you've got a player like Eboué in your side you have no room to talk. The same, to a slightly lesser extent, goes for Diaby—Wenger made a huge fuss when he got his ankle broken against Sunderland a couple of seasons ago, but was strangely quiet when Diaby busted Campo's foot. I don't recall Monkeyhead, Donkey, Dixon and Winterburn being shy of getting stuck in, either.

In the days of Keown, Adams & Viera, the arse would fight fire with fire, and get yellow & red cards galore for filthy fouls. You could see how psyched up the likes of Viera & Roy Keane were in the tunnel before an arse-manure match.

I don't like seeing flair players getting kicked from behind & injured by bad tackles - whomever commits them. Fundamentally though, Whinger is bleating because he doesn't have any Vieras in his team to look the likes of Roy Keane in the eye and attempt to face them down. Indeed, the goon season ticket holder who runs my gym sez Flamini was the only scummer who would fight fire with fire last season - which is another reason why he's been a big loss for them.

Now, the scum's leader is William "I'm in a strop" Gallas, who reserves most of his anger for his own teammates... :grin:

 

[C0YS]

Just heard a clip of Redknapp on Radio 1 when asked what he thought of Wenger's claim that Stoke tried to injure his players...

"I don't know, I didn't see it"

:lol:

I can see why the press love him!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[bomberH]

That's no wins in 3 now, against Spurs, Stoke & Fenebarche.

If i was a Mail journo, i'd be thinking along the headlines of 'CRISIS AT ARSENAL'.

Then again, if i was a Mail journo, i'd hang myself.