As you might expect, much of the talk in the papers still surrounds Ryan Shawcross, and whether or not it really was a bad tackle. It seems the general consensus is that that tackle wasn't that bad, but teams do try to kick Arsenal off the park.

In the Times, Matt Dickinson believes that Arsenal are correct to question the tactics used against them by some teams.

When Arsène Wenger preached recently about Arsenal as a lone force for good in an ugly football world, he was rightly slapped down in several quarters, this column among them, for one-eyed sermonising.

That case against him stands, but it does not mean we should now dismiss his concerns about the rough tactics employed against Arsenal.

When Wenger asks whether it is a coincidence that his team have lost three players to serious injuries in recent seasons, we should acknowledge a reasonable, heartfelt inquiry.

Because when players end up in agony with one of their legs held together only by a sock, the issues are too important to ignore or to bat away, as many would prefer to, as the whinings of a Frenchman and a team who don’t like it up ’em.

It is not just an insult to Wenger’s intelligence but to everyone’s to pretend that Arsenal do not come in for harder treatment than other teams. They are roughed up.

How can it be denied when Ricardo Fuller, the Stoke City striker, says: “Some people say before the games, ‘We know how to play Arsenal . . . we have to kick them.’ Nobody in the whole country is upset by that.”

More revealing still is that such a statement should go unremarked. Kick Arsenal? Well of course you do. You aren’t going to beat them with pretty passing.

Meanwhile, we've found an, er, entertaining piece in the Daily Mail, where Jamie Redknapp, Andy Townsend and Martin Keown give their "powerful opinions" on the debate.