Thankfully the referee at Old Trafford saw fit to rescind the sending off of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger in the dying moments of Saturday’s game. But it has done little to calm Wenger who was angered by the ‘anti football’ tactics of Manchester United.
Bizarrely Wenger’s Arsenal team picked up six of the nine yellow cards handed out during the match, with habitual United offenders Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher escaping punishment.
Wenger has a good point and it really is time to call a halt to dirty play, whether it is shirt pulling, flailing arms, or leg breaking slide tackles and United are not the only team guilty,every team in the Premier League have players who are getting away with more than they should, including Arsenal.
It is something that has become more prevalent as the pace of the English game has grown and players do really need to be punished to stop it from becoming even more widespread.
Wenger is right when he says that fans do not want to go to a game and see a series of free kicks, but they want to watch football.
Sad to see then that a few days after Eduardo was found guilty of diving to win a penalty in the Champions League knock out game against Celtic, Emmanuel Eboue was cautioned for the same offence at Old Trafford.
The Premiership has started well regarding the lack of players diving, so let’s hope that Arsenal can also cut it out of their game.
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1 Football Shirt // Sep 3, 2009 at 1:55 am
Arsene Wenger is cool .He could bring the team to the current position from such a bad stage and look where they are now.