What we all knew a long time ago!

[JerryGarcia]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6075367,00.html​

Wolves captain Karl Henry has accused Arsenal players of 'going down like a sack of spuds' following his red card at the Emirates on Saturday.
In an outspoken outburst Henry

has labelled his dismissal for a heavy challenge on Tomas Rosicky

in the 1-0 defeat a 'disgrace', while being of the opinion Arsenal players constantly moan about hard challenges.
Arsenal, who travel to Barcelona

next week for the second leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final, had made seven changes to the starting XI, but still dominated.
Wolves' job was made even harder after 65 minutes when referee Andre Marriner

produced a red card after Henry had gone through the back of Rosicky.
Following the late tackle, the Arsenal players surrounded Marriner, calling for stern action to be taken.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger

feels given the recent history of serious injury to players like Eduardo and Aaron Ramsey,

who suffered a double leg break at Stoke in February, the reaction of his team was perhaps understandable.
However, Henry - now set to serve a ban as Wolves battle to stay in the top flight, unless the club are successful in an appeal to the Football Association - was left less than impressed by the whole incident.
"I thought they were lucky getting a goal and lucky the referee sent me off, which was an absolute joke," Henry declared.
"I have gone in to win it, Rosicky has gone across me to shield the ball. By that time, I have already gone to ground.
"One of their players has come in, (Thomas) Vermaelen flying in and whoever else, trying to get me sent off.
"I certainly wouldn't be running over, trying to get a player sent off.
"I have seen it again and I have nicked the ball. It was never a red card, it is an absolute disgrace."​

Rosicky went off for treatment to the back of his calf, which did have stud marks, but was soon able to continue.
"He is up and running around two minutes later, absolutely fine," the 27-year-old Wolves midfielder said.
"That is what they do here, I don't think it's pretty.
"Their players moan when they get tackled when they get hit hard and so does Arsene Wenger.
"Here in particular, Arsenal moan a lot, their players go down like a sack of spuds.
"They get hit hard like any other clubs do and we are hearing about it for weeks and weeks.
"They play good football here, and are a great side, but it is not nice to see.
"We love Arsenal's great football, but when they are rolling around getting people sent off, it makes you not want to see them do so well."​

 

[Rumbaldo]

at the end of the day if any player has stud marks on his calf after a "tackle" the player who made the tackle needs to be punished - if the ref deems the suitable punishment to be a red card then so be it, hopefully that will teach the guilty party to not go in studs showing.
so to summarise Karl Henry is a TWAT.

 

[bomberH]

Would be a lot more satisfying to hear that come out of Thierry Henry's mouth, rather than Karl Henry.

It is amusing to read any attack on Arsenal, but if i was Wenger and was asked about this at his next press conference, my reply would be 'Who's Karl Henry'?

I sort of understand why the players rushed in, because they've had a few bad injuries in recent times, but it's Rosicky who made it look worse than it was and the fault lies with him. Most teams' players would rush in if a challenge looked reckless.

 

[JerryGarcia]

I've not seen the tackle but I just found it amusing the way he describes the events. How many times have we seen them rolling around on the floor, moaning, crowding the ref etc. At least with teams like Stoke you know what you're going to get, hard tackles and plenty of physical encounters. Arsenal just blatantly cheat every week but they get away with it. It's all part of the modern game I guess so I'm not complaining as such, it just makes me smile when other teams recognise it too.

 

[Partizan]

the conclusion I take from these comments is that Karl Henry is a fucking twat aswell.

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Both are red card offenses

 

[bomberH]

That first one is rank.

 

[mattdefoe]

happy he said it, someone needed to. wengers whinging of protection will pay off. he shouldnt play kids either if he dont want em to get tackled. there a dirty bunch of cheats and even if it was karl henry who said it glad some1 did.

 

[JerryGarcia]

Well he definately deserved the red card but he's still correct in what he says about Arsenal.

 

[Tottenham_OZpur]

he is right in that Rosicky moved late to shield the ball and that played a part in the contact, he couldn't stop himself at the speed he was closing, it may have been a tackle from the side without that

it's smart by Rosicky, you would have to foul him to get the ball, but with the above in mind and being one footed. I would have given a yellow had I seen Rosicky move his body, partly causing the contact, but Red had I not seen it as it looked bad

edit* the first was worse for me