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<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 12.75pt -0.75pt;"><span style="font-size: 16.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Wenger - Van Persie's reaction was right<p style="background: white; margin: 0.75pt 0cm 0pt;"><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 9.75pt; line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: SV; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Arsène Wenger has backed Robin van Persie’s strongly-worded reaction to the challenge on him by Emmanuel Adebayor at the weekend.
During Saturday’s match at Eastlands, the studs of the Manchester City striker connected with the head of his former Arsenal colleague. That evening, the Dutchman issued a statement on Arsenal.com describing the challenge as a “mindless and malicious stamp”. Speaking ahead of Wednesday’s game at Standard Liege, Wenger gave rock-solid support to Van Persie.
“Of course I back him,” said the manager. “In football, everybody is free to have an opinion. If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn’t say ‘thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek’. Only Jesus Christ did that.”
On Tuesday the Football Association charged Adebayor with violent conduct over the incident. By that time Wenger had seen the challenge again on video and he was far from happy.
“It looks very bad,” he said. “You ask 100 people, 99 will say it’s very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes.
“Of course we are disappointed because when you go to the head, you are always scared for people. You never know how it will affect their health.
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Wed 16 Sep 2009 14:18
en bild ? wow !
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