da leao: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes players must be made culpable if they end up injuring their opponents during games.
da esport bet: In the aftermath of Danny Murphy's comments, the Frenchman has sided with the Fulham captain's views, despite earning him the wrath of Stoke City, Blackburn and Wolverhampton Wanderers' management.
Murphy suggested that clubs could be guilty of 'sending out their players so pumped up there is inevitably going to be problems' and Wenger has backed his claims, suggesting the players must play to the rules and ignore their bosses if told to deviate from the norm.
"I am a strong believer you are responsible for what you say and what you do," he said."When I make a mistake, I do not look at anybody else, to say 'it is his fault'. It is my fault and if I behave wrongly, it is my fault, it is not somebody else's.
"If a player does bad tackling, it is too easy to hide behind the manager's instruction because you are responsible for how you behave.
"I do not want to add anything to what I have said many times – I like commitment and physical games, but it has to be in a fair way because it can only work if everybody goes into it in a fair way.
"I believe Murphy said we as managers have a responsibility regarding the behaviour of our team, and I agree, I do not deny it. I am not in the other dressing room, so I do not know. I never ask any player if he has been wound up by his manager.
"I always say the same thing – the referees have the rules for them and (have) to get the game respected, the players have to respect each other, no matter what they are instructed to do."Subscribe to Football FanCast News Headlines by Email