Ahead of our clash with Stoke City, Sir Alex Ferguson has been asked whether he shares the opinion of Arsenal’s manager on Stoke’s approach to the game.
This season, Wenger has accused Stoke of using rugby tactics and even went as far as criticising Stoke’s captain Ryan Shawcross for a non-event in a game which didn’t even involve Arsenal.
Whilst not a fan of Stoke’s approach to the game, Sir Alex recognises that we should expect different styles in the Premiership.
“I suppose Arsene Wenger has been one of their main critics but then the Arsenal manager does go off on a tangent at times,” said Fergie. “For instance, he criticised our pitch after they lost here just before Christmas and I was at a loss to understand why. Stoke at home are a terrific side and have taken points off teams like Manchester City and Liverpool this season. People have criticised their physical style of play but they stick to what they do best. And the rest of us must recognise that at the top level you have to be prepared for different styles.”
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Dirtiest players in the PL – 2010/2011
1. Kevin Davies 67 fouls
2. Tim Cahill 49 fouls
3. Cheik Tiote 44 fouls
4. Andrew Carroll 41 fouls
5. Alex Song 40 fouls
13. Dean Whitehead 29 fouls
Man Utd News 24/7
Amen to that.
And it’s good to know that Stoke are a dirtier club than Arsenal. Oh wait….
Arsenal aren’t a dirty club.
always disadvantaged by the turf, ref, weather etc.
vicious paul scholes receiving so many red cards.
oh, wait..
With David out, variety is to be our Spice.
Come one, come all, we are ready.
This also proves that Chelsea are all but out of the race.
Arsenal are in the relegation zone, nooo.
Yeah arsenal are really dirty…..showing a stat of which player has made the most fouls. hmmmm
i said this in the Rio post, we have a very good disciplinary record this season – we had four bookings – three in one game – during december. we have gone two or three games at a time between bookings …..
December bookings
anderson – 2
vidic – 1
giggs – 1
Yellows handed out by mason should not be accounted for based on his seven for Villa – three for dissent.
I think we need to add a few more red cards to city for all the fighting that takes place between the players, mancini and each other:).
Too be fair, Neville deserved to get two red cards this season.
@peter: a lot of players deserved red cards this season but did not get one – i.e. nigel de jong on ben arfa – didn’t even get a yellow – if you can believe that! but, to be fair, some players that got one did not deserve it, either.
Scott I am absolutely appalled at this article. That you would suggest Arsenal are filthy hypocrites and have no one but themselves to blame for their disciplinary record and lack of trophies. They are the best footballing side in the country, they play beautiful football and have had an absolutely shocking bad run of luck with awful pitches, vicious hordes of Stoke and Bolton players hacking them into oblivion, and being pitched against men when they are clearly a U-15 squad. Shocking. On top of all that their manager is blind. What an easy target for you to attack. Disgusting.
On a serious note, I’m going for 5-0 tonight, Come on United!
Neville has the quality to avoid the red while making the tackle.
i have done all of match reports this season for my blog site, we get a lot of our cards in bunches – two or three in one game and then go one or two games without any.
you can also play the other side of the coin by saying maybe we could have more of a killer instinct if were being more forceful on the pitch.
Good to see SAF talking about us. Usually a sign that he’s worried. He’ll start praising Chelsea next when they are out of the title race. Or maybe the referees. Strange how players wearing the Man U shirt seem immune to the rules that normally apply to other footballers. it must be Gary neville’s angelic face…
lol
gunner shite
@keanesmagichat
And the best part is that they come here and amuse sus even more.
@keanesmagichat
And the best part is that they come here and amuse us even more.
go fuck yourself Arsedoctor. Why don’t you pay attention to your own boring Arsenal blogs – oh wait, i just answered that …
your team is filled with a bunch of yellow-bellied pansies who cannot tackle to save their life – which was proven at Old Trafford. how you finished that match with a 11 is a testament to Webb’s patience and allowing the players to dictate the result.
Reminds me of another time your lot came to Old Trafford with yellow shirts and those cheating fucks – Cole, Keown and Laursen – were lucky to escape with their lives.
@ Arsedoctor: give it another month and Fergie and Wenger will be best buddies again.
by the way, you are more hypocritical than anyone because it is your manager that discusses other teams when they are not playing them in attempts to get the referee to book them. it comes as no surprise that he is not mentioning anything about shawcross tonight. … how many times has he mention evra, nani and scholes this season!? exactly. Now STFU, idiot.
@Arsedoctor go back to your day job of giving people prostate exams you cockney shite
@Peter
hammons is right. Over the course of 19-20 games, I think that almost every club can say that they escaped a red or got an unjust one. Nev should have seen red on both occasions, but luckily he didn’t. Overall, it’s nice to see that we haven’t seen red as of yet. We saw plenty of them in the last 2 seasons.
No surprises to see Kevin Davies top that list!
That what make sir alex a greatest manager.
@costas:
i think that our disciplined approached has been the real reason why we have been able to sustain our unbeaten run in the league. … i was going to write an article about it, but then we had three yellows against Brum and another three against WBA.
On a sad note ….
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3330690/Funeral-for-Terry-affair-keeper.html
@hammons
So that’s 1/5 of the yellows picked up in the last two. It makes sense that this would happen away from home. It’s still a valid arguement on your behalf though. United are never at their best when we lose our temper. Can’t find a stat about it, but I think that it was something like 15-16 red cards for us in 08-10. Too much.
@costas:
well that did include 2 reds in one game (fulham away – scholes and rooney); 3 straight reds for vidic in the meaningful derby. … in a span of two games we had three reds in 2008/09 (liverpool (h), fulham (a)).
I could only find these statistics …
2009/10 – 3. 49Y 4R = 57PTS
2008/09 – 14. 61Y 5R = 71 PTS
Well as so for that ranking of the dirtiest players, I don’t think it’s accurate. Song might make lots of fouls, but he’s not a dirty player. Dirty player is someone who threatens another player’s health.
Yeah, Sir Alex is really worried about Arsesnood, he was shaking in the pre match interview.
I think most Arsenalfans including myself loves the fact that the team has became more “dirty” again.
More pointless, hit-generating twaddle Scott?
The ManU fans are absolutely terrified of us this season for some reason.
Youd have thought that playing so poorly and being unbeaten they would be confident…..but even their manager is looking rattled now.
Bound to rub off on the supporters at some stage I suppose.
No Dave, it was yous that was terrified at OT mate. Not my words, your own player said that.
No balotelli or silva tomorrow for city…so should be an easy victory for arsenal? what do you say Dave?
@willie: well said.
@goonerdave:
listen paedophile lover, you keep mentioning hit-generating – tell us how many times you have come to this site today!? Way too many if you are both honest, which we can tell you aren’t by your unfounded comments.
If you haven’t noticed by now, this is a Manchester United opinion-based blog – not an Arsenal one. Go back and tell all of the other smurfs that you stupid fucking opinions are not wanted or needed.
it is interesting that looking at the top five dirtiest players – three of them are forwards and there are no defenders. …
GoonerDave – So worried we are pettily commenting on their blogs eh? – Oh no wait, thats you.
Shame poor bloody Arse supporters.
They win a bloody game against Chelsea, albeit a Chelsea that is in very poor run of form and what do they do?
They start strutting around like a postal worker who works at a 1man post office in some third world country who has been told they have been given a promotion. That promotion entails being given a stick of glue so they won’t have to lick stamps anymore. YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!
Rooney needs a yellow card get his blood going and play with fire again. Hows his ankle?
GoonerDave FUCK OFF AND TIE!!!!!!!! yes tie as both loose points. The Goomer’s will loose the league as well as Cese in the summer.
For instance, he criticised our pitch after they lost here just before Christmas and I was at a loss to understand why. LOL thats cold.
l’arse fans love coming on here. We worried about you as someone earlier posted didn’t look like that at OT in December.
Number of fouls made by last 5 teams to visit OT – Stoke 11; Sunderland 10; Arsenal 16; Blackburn 6; Wigan 15
There’s some dark side for you.
@costas: love those stats!
Pour it on em Costas lol. They are a blinkered set of fans, the Arsesnoods.
Are you desperate for hits or something? This article literally has no point, an offhand comment from Sir Alex and you’ve posted a whole article on it. Don’t you have any news other than impending financial oblivion?
Also, oh shock and horror our defensive midfielder has picked up an average of two fouls a game. Yeah we’re such dirty bloody hypocrites aren’t we. I’m sure Fletcher would be on this list if he could do his job properly this season.
@hammons
I am sure that some will blame the OT officiating for Arsenal’s 16 fouls. Arsenoods, lol.
Speak of the snood, lol.
jonny come lately, the new snood in town.
Hysterically funny!!!!!
Well i see the quality of banter among United fans hasn’t changed….still shameful!
Sorry our banter isn’t as delicate as Arsenal’s tackling.
Its as rough and ready as Big Sam playing centre-back for Gravesend and Northsfleet
Moustache and all? Gosh that was stiff.
Ok, I’ll be a fair guy. If tomorrow’s game doesn’t end as a draw, hopefully you will knock the stuffing out of Shity again.
Its not an image I want to think about for too long, i feel dirty having brought it up….
Cheers, well we fired ourselves up for Chelski so hopefully Wenger can do the same tomorrow. If not we’ll be sluggish and probably lose. Don’t wanna call it to be honest….good win for you lot against Stoke tonight, always fearful of United’s second half of the season form.
jonny – Don’t pout mate lol. I know It’s hard to except that you’re team isn’t on Uniteds level, but hey, there’s always the league cup. I mean, don’t knock it. It’s a trophy at the end of the day.
I certainly wouldn’t knock the League Cup mate….its a prestigious, glorius- ah fuck it, its a bollocks trophy but I’d love to win it. Might just set this squad on the way to being ‘on your level’, wherever that may be
Way up there where the air is so rare.
The top level.
You know, Ferguson, and I believe Rooney, once stated that the league cup win in 06 gave that squad the belief and the desire to win more trophies. And that started showing over the next 3 years. So if Arsenal get a taste of it this season, who knows what kind of effect it may have. Personally, I feel that regardless of the league cup, Wenger has to become more flexible in his tactics..
Jonny, no evidence as of yet about United’s form improving a lot during the 2nd half of the season. I know it’s considered something like a tradition, but it doesn’t always happen. For that matter, I can’t see any team picking up 6-8 wins in a row from now on…
Fergie only ever comments on the teams he’s worried about. silly old fool, we’ve all seen this time and again, and your mob falls for it every time, fawning over the old drunk
The question is why your mob falls for Scott’s trick and keeps giving him hits each week.
Different styles is one thing
You have to admit, most teams are disgustingly rough against Arsenal.
Alex – You’re right mate. We’re worried about Arsesnood. I remember the European cup semi final, we just about got past your team. Last season at your place, yous played some great stuff, 3 1 wasn’t it? Then a few weeks ago, at OT, you really put up a great fight. I remember thinking, to my self any way, that’s there’s no doubt, you’ll finish in the top four.
Thank you that, puts into perspective. As i tried to say a while back, they are hacking bastards.
Anyone for DE jong to break that Fabregits leg later tonigh( jokin), if he plays, wait a minute? they have aboot a million midfielders, none of the fading class that is a United Legend that is Paul Scholes.
@bobbycharlie1968
You are on fire mate
“Costas says:
The question is why your mob falls for Scott’s trick and keeps giving him hits each week. ”
Brilliant mate.. stick it to them
Interestingly the best/top side here is Hughes’ Fulham. That’s a terrific level of discipline, in stark contrast to his days at Blackburn where if you’ll cast your mind back there was much villification of his then teams more robust approach.
Just goes to show you.
We, afraid of Arsenal? Sure thing, sure thing, whatever turns you on, GoonerDave.
Since when did you gooners start getting infected with the Liverpudlian-strain self-delusional bug?
Classic Wenger! Brilliant post!
Wenger is more oneeyed than my own penis.
GoonerDave and Arsedoctor.
Are you two fucking wise!? Im a southerner, Im a surrey lad by birth, but then I had to decide how to grow up and had the sense to leave the south. Sure Ive been given some stick and an arse load of United supporters have given me grief for being a southern twat but you two make me ashamed i was even born at all. Thank god for the internet, it allows you Arsenal shirt lifters to put your opinions across with a mouthfull of cock, otherwise we wouldn’t understand your garbled French. I grew up hatting Spurs mainly because of Gary Linekaar having a tampon up his arse but you French loving harristocrats are a fucking joke. Scared of Arsenal dont make me laugh. You wont finnish in the top 3, bank on it twats, your managers a kiddie fiddler and all you so called jellied eel eaters spend all day poncing at cafes and bistros picking up wafer thin southern french rent boys on exchange for your kids on the rivierra sucking Tunisien cock. I remember when you as a cockney proved your authenticity by walking down the street, hands in pockets and whistling. Now we can pick you shirt lifters out from a fucking mile away, hands in someone elses pockets, licking and puckering up your lips to whistle. Arseforall is a fucking joke, all you have in your team is a handfull of hangers on and a little dago pillow biter. Once he goes what are you fudgepackers left with, thats right a pedo who remembers all too fondly his time in Japan with Grandpas 8. Fuck if i want to know what thats about. Piss off you lot and do somethingf decent like be a Paalce supporter or something.
Despite my previous comment Im also amused that the boss didnt want us to sing about our good friend Wenger as being a pedo. Ok maybe a bit over the top but he certainly thinks hes a wanker then. Because everytime I go off at a tangent then my tangent leaves a hell of a mess on my wifes chin, and when she wakes up and she clobbers me one.
I mean come on Fergie, if your going to instruct us be civil be consistent fella.