Last weekend Bolton’s Kevin Davies was vilified for a challenge on Arsenal’s Gael Clichy in his side’s 3-1 home defeat to the Gunners. The young left-back had to leave the field which left Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger enraged. The Frenchman said, “We have no problem with people being physical when they play us - that is a charming part of the game.

“But I don’t call kicking people being physical. That kind of thing is outside the rules of the game.

Bolton tried to intimidate us.”

His Centre-half Kolo Toure called the tackle a disgrace whilst Trotters boss Gary Megson countered, “”Kevin’s tackle was nothing - in fact he shouldn’t have even been booked.

“Yes, he’s an aggressive player but he played the ball fairly. It was a proper football challenge.

“But we always hear the same thing when Arsenal come here.”

Has the Bolton boss got a point when the player clearly got the ball only for his momentum to lead to his trailing leg catching the left-back?The manager of the Gunners next opponents Hull is also right behind Davies. Phil Brown had this to say, “For me, the Kevin Davies tackle, there was nothing wrong with that.

‘If you take that out of the game Hull City might as well not play at the Emirates. If you allow Arsenal to dictate that that tackle goes out of the game, then we are finished.

‘We have got that tackle on our side - they have got the technical side of the game on their side.

‘If they are allowed to express that technical side without tackling, without physical contact, we might as well not turn up.’

Even Football Pools pundit Alan Hansen suggested Davies had done no wrong in this incident, “Arsene Wenger and Kolo Toure have both been outspoken in their condemnation of Bolton’s Kevin Davies following a challenge on Gael Clichy at the weekend. Now everyone has a right to their opinion but for me Davies made contact with the ball and the challenge was a fair old fashioned one.”

So do you agree that Arsenal have cause to complain about the challenge or that the tackle was a fair one and a welcome part of the English game? Let’s hear your view.

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