Just a day after Arsene Wenger came out hard hitting in the press (and days after he was congratulatory to Stoke City in his post-game comments) over the physical tactics that saw his Arsenal lose 2 – 0 at the Brittania Stadium, Robin Van Persie Red carded and Emmanuel Adebayor (ankle), Theo Walcott (shoulder) and Bacary Sagne (ankle) injured during the course of the 90 minutes, Stoke City head coach Tony Pulis responded via his teams official website.
Wenger said: “The only intention is to hurt you and I can show some tackles where I can prove what I say.
“Do you think (Rory) Delap tried to play the ball when he tackled Walcott? Or that [Ryan] Shawcross tried to play the ball when he tackled Adebayor off the pitch. All the players have been injured deliberately.”
Tony Pulis’ response Via StokeCityFC
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.”
image via TheSun
