Perspective Please.
The well-publicised “spat” between Nicklas Bendtner and Emmanuel Adebayor has had the media, in particular Sky and the Daily Mail creaming their jeans with airtime and column inches calling for justice.
Looking at the incident, I can’t see a comparison to Le Saux and Batty’s European scrap while at Blackburn or even Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer’s brawl at St James’s. At the time, the team was getting thumped, Bendtner had already scored an own goal and was losing any effectiveness he had in the earlier part of the game and Adebayor was determined to retain some respectability. Football is an emotional game, and I would want my team to show a bit of passion and get each other going - maybe Adebayor went a bit far, granted, but at least he showed he cared.
If the FA are to look at the incident and undoubtedly punish Arsenal and their players, maybe they’d like to examine the tape of the entire game with the Spurs fans throwing objects at Fabregas when he went to take corners or singing songs about Arsene Wenger being a…. well, you know. Maybe next time Spurs fans get all uppity about being called the “Y” word they may want to have a closer look at some of their own support.
