Wenger Backs Benitez: Fixture List Favours Manchester United
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The fixture organisers have a case to answer for the way the matches fall, argues the Arsenal boss, which is pretty much what Rafa was saying recently.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger agrees with his Liverpool counterpart Rafael Benitez that the fixture list unfairly favours Manchester United.
According to the Daily Mail, Wenger feels Benitez has a point in his complaint that the fixtures in the Barclays Premier League tend to favour United. That was one of the central points in Rafa's recent rant against United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
Wenger is quoted by the Mail as saying: "I feel that next week [Liverpool manager Rafael] Benitez has a case if you look at the way the fixtures are arranged.
"You can say that Manchester United have been extremely advantaged, unexplainably advantaged.
"But that is what we have to cope with. It is difficult to explain why one team plays on Tuesday and the others are all on Wednesday.
"It is unfair competition. Next week the fixtures are advantaged for Manchester United, who before had a point against Liverpool - I supported them when they had a case. But this week, I think Benitez has a case.
"Manchester United play on Tuesday at West Brom, after they play against Everton who will have played on Sunday, again on Wednesday night.
"I do not think you need to be a specialist in football to understand that in this case it is an unfair advantage for Manchester United.
"Will it have an advantage on the global season? I don't know, you would have to analyse that better.
"It is not Manchester United's fault, it is not Liverpool's fault. It is the organisers of the fixtures. They have a case to explain." -
Kao, they only think of the second half of the season where Man utd gets to play at home alot. They never think of the first half where Utd has to play dunno how many matches away
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Yeah, and they all kept quiet when United were the only one who had to play all their 6 matches after their CL games away to difficult places... Had United not manage to handle the first half of the season, they could already be out of the CL let alone the Premiership...
All these fellows got nothing else better to do but look for excuses for their own shortcomings only...
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er.. stupid la..
all team have to play both home and away.. so wtf exquse is that?