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Stoke boss backed by McCarthy
Friday 7th November 2008, 2:41PM GMT.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy has backed Stoke counterpart Tony Pulis over Arsene Wenger’s blast that the Potters deliberately set out to injure Arsenal players.
Furious Gunners boss Wenger claimed that Bakari Sagna, Theo Walcott and Emmanuel Adebayor were deliberately crocked by Pulis’ players Rory Delap and Ryan Shawcross in last week’s stormy 2-1 win for Stoke.
Wenger likened the Stoke players to “cowards” but Pulis has defended his players and McCarthy has now joined the debate.
He said: “I won’t get involved in other manager’s arguments but all I will say is that Tony Pulis’ teams are competitive.
“I’ve never had to complain about them being over-competitive, over-zealous or being nasty. I saw the game and that wasn’t the case.”
“We can’t all play like Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, so we have to use whatever attributes, skills or armoury we can.
“But I don’t think Stoke were over the top.”
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mick stay out of it man nuffin to do with us and specially stoke sod them,we have big game to moz concentrate on that,or is it express and star blownin things out of proportion agen
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the southern softies got no belly for a fight
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Typical Arsenal and Arsene Wenger, moaning when things don’t go there way, he needs to sign some players with a bit of bottle, its a mans game after all
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Glad he doesn’t listen to an illiterate like you.
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Arsene would have said he never saw the challenges if it had of been the other way around. He’s such a bad loser. French tw**
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haha good to see stoke doin the gooners tho wasnt it!! put the glory seekers in there place.
how can they be over competitive with big SOFT george in the team! the most un-competitive man in football!
wenger is just a bad loser
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raffo.
you’re a burke.
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Was it Van Persy who got a straight red card, Mr Wenger has double standards!
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7,ur the muppet stay of the site if u a got any think good to say punk
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Raffo get a grip u come out with some rubbish Im sure you a baggie.. your the one who wants to look in the mirror and think abbout what your writing as your always getting slated… You slate the wolves whether were doing well or not it doesnt matter.. Does us a favour mate and zip it!!!
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If this was the big brother house, this week I would be nominating Bob Wolf (Collins love child)and Raffo (Illiterate 5 year old / possible baggie / possible E&S employee) up for eviction.
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Get lost Raffo
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What no terrypratbaggie probably because this is about teams with bottle not like the carrier bags
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lol, i have to say stokes tackles were pretty bad but i dont think deliberate arsene wenger needs to learn how to deal with defeats and injuries, its called football sometimes ur just plain unlucky
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I live in Stoke and despise the fact that they are doing ok in the prem. Seven of their 11 goals so far have come from the bloke with the name like a pneumatic tyre!! You know they still make me laugh when they claim they are the biggest club in the Midlands rather than just Stoke-on-Trent.
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15,there a dam dite bigger than yow, aye boing boing donk
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I have to say I didnt see the game but became interested when Wrighty and Durham were banging on about it on talk sport one evening. To hear them you would have thought the tackles were something out of hammer house of horror. Having seen them since – I cant beleive the hype !! Delaps was simply mistimed and was the sort of tackle we see all the time. The other tackle was late and merited a yellow card – but not malicious. I quite like Wenger as a manager and he is fervent Arsenal through and through – thats good for them ….but to bleat like this is not good. Stoke won – get over it !! Just hope we are playing Arsenal next season ;-)
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Wenger has always had terrible double standards. Every football manager is going to be biased to their side, that’s a given, but AW is notoriously selective with his vision. I love to watch Arsenal play, they have a style which is terrific to watch, but next time you see them notice how they fall over whenever they lose possession. I’ve never seen a team win so many 50/50 free-kicks. So AW ALWAYS moans when they don’t get them (ie when they lose!!). Viera was the peerless master at this and they’ve never replaced him.
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