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Highbury: The Manchester United striker was labelled a player "who can only cheat people" by Wenger after the ill-tempered 2-0 Old Trafford defeat in October that ended Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run in the league.
Arsenal have compiled a video diary of the Dutchman's misdemeanours that they believe backs up Wenger's allegation, and the club's lawyers are determined to argue the case that Wenger was only exercising freedom of speech.
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Why Van Nistelrooy can only cheat people
The boss finally comes up in front of the F.A. today, charged with labelling Ruud Van Nistelrooy a cheat. Though he won't be there in person, it's thought Arsenal have detailed a lengthy dossier of the equine one's various attempts to end Arsenal players' careers over the past three years. All of which should be quite funny. It's thought that the boss will 'escape' with a fine for his comments in any case.
No doubt, Fergie and his media pals will call it a fix, wonder why the F.A. took note of Arsene's dossier and not the one Fergie sent to the F.A. of alleged misdemeanours from Old Trafford on our part, accuse David Dein of holding too much influence at the F.A. and blame it all on Nigel Winterburn for taunting Brian McClair for his penalty miss in 1988. The hulabaloo will carry on until the weekend, giving everyone the opportunity to forget the actual facts of the case.
Cheat
Which, in case you've forgotten, are that in the Old Trafford games of May 2002, January 2003, September 2003 and October 2004, Ruud Van Nistelrooy regularly assaulted Arsenal players, including a punch to Freddie Ljungberg's chest, a stamp on Martin Keown, a terrible challenge on Lauren, an attempt to go through Patrick Vieira's back and an attempt to break Ashley Cole's leg.
On the basis that up until the time of Wenger's comments nothing had been done about any of the above incidents, I'm struggling to see what is so factually wrong about asserting that Van Nistelrooy "can only cheat people". Interesting that within hours of his comments, justice finally started to catch up with Van Nistelrooy when he was banned for the Cole incident (this despite SKY initially trying to completely ignore it).
Fergie's dossier
On the other hand, Fergie's dossier contained wholly biased evidence (that was dismissed on the grounds of its bias) on the alleged food fight, Therry Henry falling over and entirely accidentally catching Gabriel Heinze and Dennis Bergkamp making the slightest of contact with Alan Smith. The accustations were dismissed not because the F.A. are biased, but actually because they were complete bollocks.
Sadly, whilst Lauren is quite rightly condemned for trying to incriminate another player, Fergie's cynical attempt to get two of our players banned was completely indulged by a press seemingly living in perpetual fear of being banned from speaking to the rose faced one.
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so today's the day, should be interesting, Wenger will get a fine but will be allowed to show the F.A. why RvN can only cheat.
Arsenal have compiled a video diary of the Dutchman's misdemeanours that they believe backs up Wenger's allegation, and the club's lawyers are determined to argue the case that Wenger was only exercising freedom of speech.
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Why Van Nistelrooy can only cheat people
The boss finally comes up in front of the F.A. today, charged with labelling Ruud Van Nistelrooy a cheat. Though he won't be there in person, it's thought Arsenal have detailed a lengthy dossier of the equine one's various attempts to end Arsenal players' careers over the past three years. All of which should be quite funny. It's thought that the boss will 'escape' with a fine for his comments in any case.
No doubt, Fergie and his media pals will call it a fix, wonder why the F.A. took note of Arsene's dossier and not the one Fergie sent to the F.A. of alleged misdemeanours from Old Trafford on our part, accuse David Dein of holding too much influence at the F.A. and blame it all on Nigel Winterburn for taunting Brian McClair for his penalty miss in 1988. The hulabaloo will carry on until the weekend, giving everyone the opportunity to forget the actual facts of the case.
Cheat
Which, in case you've forgotten, are that in the Old Trafford games of May 2002, January 2003, September 2003 and October 2004, Ruud Van Nistelrooy regularly assaulted Arsenal players, including a punch to Freddie Ljungberg's chest, a stamp on Martin Keown, a terrible challenge on Lauren, an attempt to go through Patrick Vieira's back and an attempt to break Ashley Cole's leg.
On the basis that up until the time of Wenger's comments nothing had been done about any of the above incidents, I'm struggling to see what is so factually wrong about asserting that Van Nistelrooy "can only cheat people". Interesting that within hours of his comments, justice finally started to catch up with Van Nistelrooy when he was banned for the Cole incident (this despite SKY initially trying to completely ignore it).
Fergie's dossier
On the other hand, Fergie's dossier contained wholly biased evidence (that was dismissed on the grounds of its bias) on the alleged food fight, Therry Henry falling over and entirely accidentally catching Gabriel Heinze and Dennis Bergkamp making the slightest of contact with Alan Smith. The accustations were dismissed not because the F.A. are biased, but actually because they were complete bollocks.
Sadly, whilst Lauren is quite rightly condemned for trying to incriminate another player, Fergie's cynical attempt to get two of our players banned was completely indulged by a press seemingly living in perpetual fear of being banned from speaking to the rose faced one.
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so today's the day, should be interesting, Wenger will get a fine but will be allowed to show the F.A. why RvN can only cheat.
