Wenger charged over Ruud outburst Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been charged with improper conduct for his comments after his team's 2-0 loss to Manchester United last month. The Football Association charge relates to his remarks about striker Ruud van Nistelrooy after the game at Old Trafford on 24 October. Guess the saga of the Battle of Old Trafford II isn't quite over. Should be interesting...
Charged with? - I didnt thing there was little doubt about what he said, but I also didnt think we lived under some obscure regime either. Free speech and all that.... Vive La Liberte!
If Wenger had said those same words about the referee then he would have been punished by the FA. Is this that much different - I think there have to be some boundaries for what can be said, especially as those comments generated further acrimony for the return game (which, lets be honest, hardly needed any more fuel on the fire )
I couldnt agree more. Provided you can show me where in the rules it says managers have to be classy. To be honest its just another one of the over hyped tabloid mud slinging contests. We, as fans, should not really be rising to such trivialites, and neither should the managers of our respective clubs. Its a waste of all out energies
Wenger feeds the violent tendancies of his players and then doesn't understand why they behave as they do. As a result of his comments the return game at Highbury could well be much more physical - which is hypocritical when you hear his complaints that the OT game was already too physical. Wenger may be an intelligent and effective coach but he has a deplorable lack of self awareness and is blind to his own influence over his team. Last season's OT performance broke through that blindness but he's in danger of losing it again if he continues to blame everyone and everything for the stuttering performance of his players.
Punch up next game. Cyst Fabergé gets knocked out, by Phil Neville hahah, for his pea soup thing haha.
Does calling the entire other team a "mob" and stating that their behaviour was the "worst" thing you've seen in football cause animosity? Just curious? Personally, I think this is all much ado about nothing. If the FA wants to fine Wenger for his comments....okay fine him and be done with it.
ya ian, but he was being honest.... ruud knows he was in the wrong for the DREADFUL challange on cole... that was intent to injure type stuff... must of learned it from keano... ive seen teh replay more and more, and i cant believe he wasnt red carded for it.... i guess that is why he didnt even appeal.. he knew he f'd up... just horrible~ if being honest is against the FA rules, then arsene is very guilty~
There is nothing the least bit civilized about an Arsenal/ManU match.... Nor should there be. At least not until the NHL starts up again. Arsenal/ManU is my best bet for organized mayhem and barely legal violence. Nothing wrong with ill-will and hatred between two teams. Leagues have been founded on such spats.
And as usual, the bitter Arsenal fans prove that they know nothing. Have you ever heard of bringing the game into disrepute? Wenger needs to be put back in his place. He has gotten away with it for too long.
Bollox. There's plenty of things people could say in post match interviews that could be "honest", but that doesn't mean that they are classy or appropriate. Being "honest" about your opinion, is different than telling "the truth". We've never gotten the truth from Wenger regarding your actions in last year's fixture, or when you were branded as "the soup chuckers" this year either...
Why do we care what the FA does with it. We have moved on! We have done the League a favour and reminded the rest of the EPL what it takes to shut down the Arsenal. Play them physical and they shrink. Part of the "shrinking" is the noisy squealing side effect. Squeaking from within his state of shock is his attempt to run his fingernails down the chaulkboard. Wenger has flubbed it.
Those threads are making me famous. Everytime someone loses an avatar bet on BS, someone chimes in and says "hey, it could be worse, you could be Coach_McGuirk". I am rapidly becoming the Chicago Cubs of this piece of electronic real estate.