Punish dirty players – Wenger

(16-10-2010) Arsene Wenger on Friday waded into the debate over the shocking challenges which have blighted the EPL in recent weeks, calling on football authorities to give dirty players lengthy bans. Asked whether he thought certain players deliberately tried to injure opponents, Wenger said: "Do you think all the injuries are coincidence? It's not God who makes these tackles, it's the players. Everyone knows what I think. When I spoke out two months ago I got stick from the whole country. But I stick to what I said then.” He added that it was time that the punishment meted out fitted the crime. "We have to make sure the players know when they go into a game that if they do something dirty they are going to get punished. Football has a responsibility to punish people on video who do dirty things which the referee has not seen.”