Fordy wrote:stoke..............
He blamed your draw in the Cl on stoke
and after the stoke match he said stoke played well then 2 days later slagged them off.
Alot of people on here have commented on wenger talking crap with lame excuses if you dont think so its your choice but i know as a fact wenger is fast becoming a bit of a joke to fans out side Arsenal, Its always someone else s fault with him and he is unable to admit somebody else was better than his team on the day.
No, the difference is Fordy, I watch the Arsenal press conferences on ATVO rather than reading the bit that the journalists think is interesting on Sky Sports or in The Sun.
The Stoke game is a classic example. He gave a 15 minute press conference in which he praised the Stoke team and clearly said that they deserved to win.
2 days later in a different press conference he was asked about the injuries to our players and he said that some of Stoke's tackles were illegal and should've been picked up by the ref but more specifically he completely rejected the idea that his team are 'not brave enough' to win the Prem. This was an assertion made by a Stoke player which angered him and he responded directly to that. He was also at pains to point out that he wasn't criticising Stoke or making excuses for the loss because he'd already praised them in the post-match interview.
By the time the media had twisted it there way it was spun into 'Wenger says Stoke are crap at football and just foul all the time'.
This is of course a million miles from what he actually said. He actually said "A Stoke player said that we lost the game because we're not brave enough but the brave one is the one that tries to ride through tackles not the one who tackles late and from behind. To me this is not bravery."
He never ONCE said or implied that Stoke fouled their way to a win, but this is how the media twisted it.
You should learn to take everything you read with a bucket of salt, you should know that by now.