HOW does he get away with it? Arsene Wenger claims that two Stoke City players deliberately tried to injure his players on Saturday.

The Professor reckons Rory Delap was trying to hurt England wonderkid Theo Walcott, a former Southampton teammate. To see that challenge, click here

And he claims that Ryan Shawcross was setting out to crock Emmanuel Adebayor.

He’s not saying that they were a bit careless, or a bit thick. He’s not even saying that they were reckless.

If any ordinary person accused someone of deliberately setting out to do serious injury, they would be taken to court and sued for slander. It would rightly cost them thousands of pounds in damages.

Short of saying that you were trying to kill someone, it’s hard to think of a more serious allegation.

Now Wenger has got form for this kind of rant. When Birmingham City forced a 2-2 draw with his team in February, Martin Taylor’s tackle on Arsenal’s Eduardo put the Croatian striker out for the season. Wenger’s response – Taylor should be banned from the game for life.

Now in that case the comments were made straight after a game, when the horror of Eduardo’s injury was fresh in his mind. He had the sense to retract them later on.

But Wenger has had since Saturday to get over what happened at Stoke, so he doesn’t have the excuse that these latest comments were made in the heat of the moment.

I agree with the principle that players should not be allowed to get away with kicking others, but put your own house in order, Arsene.

Arsenal’s very own William Gallas famously kicked Manchester United's Nani when he played keepy-uppy in an FA Cup match last season.

What did Arsene Wenger do after that incident? Did he berate his player for deliberately kicking an opponent? Condemn him for trying to injure a fellow professional?

No, he implied that the Manchester United winger deserved what he got because he was ‘humiliating’ Arsenal players by showing his skill.

Are the FA going to take action against Wenger for slandering players whose only crime was to try to take the ball off an opponent during a game?

And if not, why not?