Wenger denies disrepute charge

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has denied an English Football Association improper conduct and/or bringing the game into disrepute charge over disparaging comments he made following last month's fractious League Cup final.

Wenger accused a linesman of lying about the ugly fight that marred Chelsea's 2-1 win over the Gunners at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

Three players were sent off for their part in the brawl but afterwards, Wenger said a linesman had lied about the part Togo forward Emmanuel Adebayor had to play in the fracas, which saw him, team-mate Kolo Toure and Chelsea's Mikel John Obi receive their marching orders.

Adebayor was sent off for violent conduct but Wenger believed he had been dismissed for throwing a punch at Chelsea's...