Wenger: Adebayor row is over, move on

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Date	Time	C	Opponent	F	A	R	S
22 Jan	8:00 PM	LC	Tottenham Hotspur (A)	1	5	Lost

Manager Arsène Wenger has expressed his surprise at the press coverage that the argument between strikers Nicklas Bendtner and Emmanuel Adebayor received.

The pair clashed during the Carling Cup semi-final against Tottenham, and were vilified in the press, many of whom were calling for the pair to be charged but Wenger as yet has not taken any action against the pair.

Instead, the Frenchman turned on the national press for their coverage of the row.

Wenger said: "Everyone has played football and in what team does that kind of incident not happen?

"I am surprised that in a country with such a history in the game that so much is made of it.

"It is something to talk about, but there are disagreements in every team.

"People play rugby in this country and that is where people get hit every week, it is normal.

"Then we have an incident where someone might have been touched a tiny bit and everyone is shocked. People are shocked, but I was not shocked.

"Why should he have been suspended? Who has seen that he has hit his team-mate?

"There were 200 hundred photographers and seven cameras around the pitch and everyone tried to find one where Adebayor hit Bendtner - but they didn't find anything.

"So why should anyone come to the conclusion that Adebayor hit Bendtner? If they had he would have been suspended.

"We deal with it internally. We are quite severe when we feel the players have to be punished - but everyone tried to prove that Adebayor hit Bendtner and nobody found anything.

"Bendtner did not say that he was hit.

"Both of them apologised because it didn't project the right sort of image and it shocked your [the media's] virgin view of the game."

Striker Emmanuel Adebayor himself has said that the row with his team mate was over and that the both of them have moved on.

Adebayor said: "It's all finished because we are all footballers and we all play for Arsenal and that is more important.

"You need sometimes to talk and wake ourselves up, and that's what we've done on Tuesday, and at the moment everything is behind us and is finished."

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Orishpapa

Posted on 27 Jan, 2008 at 09:34 PM - Reply

The press!Hate them don't you?They hold microscopes to minute things and make them large.I hope Ade and Bendtner resolve this in-house and not in the press.

MymumsaGooner

Posted on 27 Jan, 2008 at 09:05 PM - Reply

For godsake can't the media just get over it?!

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