Wenger blasts Stoke 'cowards'

[pondus]

...Loving it!

I was just waiting for you to come and have a wank at this

Not a Wenger fan right?

[AFII]

I don't have any sympathy for him, there are not many teams who can go out and match Arsenal in terms of pure footballing ability, Teams like Stoke have to play to their strengths and if that involves stopping a player like Walcott having a clean run through on goal then fair enough. I remember last season when we played Arsenal in the CL Quarter final i think it was Andy townsend saying Aurellio should have been prepared to take Walcott out and take the yellow card rather than letting him run past and put the ball on a plate for Adebayor, it's been happening in football for years and it's a part of the game, injuries happen in contact sports and until Platini gets his way and makes it a non contact sport it will continue to happen

I can't agree with that making **** fouls is to play to your strength. It's called cheating because you are not good enough. It's football we talk about, not Rugby.

Every tackle from behind should be a red card because that sort of tackles is only made to take the player out and not to take the ball.

Every tackle with no intention to get the ball should be at least a yellow card.

I don't care if a team ends up with seven players and that 15 bookings is handled out. If you don't protect the players then they will end up injured.

[Gaz]

Would you be that non-plussed about it, if Torres was through on goal against Stoke and someone came and took him out deliberately and put him out for an extended period of time?

I bet you wouldn't

No i wouldn't be happy about it but unless it was a tackle where he intentionally set out to injure him i wouldn't complain about it, i don't expect teams like Stoke to come onto the football pitch and try and play their way through us because that just won't happen, they play to their strengths and Arsenal seem to suffer from it more than others because of their style of play. It also doesn't help the situation when Wenger constantly whines about it

[Kenneth]

On Adebayor, Pulis said: "As I recall Emmanuel Adebayor was booked for a chest-high challenge on Ryan Shawcross." Pulis also reminded Wenger that Robin van Persie was dismissed for striking Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.

"There was only one red card on Saturday and the last time I watched the game it was not a Stoke player who received it," said Pulis.

[Parm]

He may have a point but he has just magnified the hard tackles his team is going to receive and lessened the likelyhood a ref will punish it.

Idiotic move and screams of the desperation of a man seeing yet another season slowly fold.

true, true. Funny thing is, it was Van Persie who sent off against stoke.