by ronk » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:51 am
Curious language from Wenger, is there a source online for this?
It's kind of an equivocal statement. Originally he said he hadn't seen the incident and that he was going to study it carefully. He did the same with the Eduardo case and found the weaknesses in the video evidence. Now he didn't say that the video evidence is conclusively damning for Adebayor, he just said that 99 out of a hundred people would think so.
For Wenger, there's a difference. I'm not sure that he's actually convinced himself, that's why he's relying on what other people who haven't studied the video as closely as he has (and he has studied it very closely) think of it. He's always going to back his own player, but he'd prefer to obfuscate rather than say something that he believes to be unsupportable with evidence, something contrary to science.
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