GINOLA: 'I WILL BACK FREDDIE'S APPEAL' 

Arsenal's hopes of a successful appeal against the sending-off of Fredrik Ljungberg against 
Tottenham were lifted dramatically when David Ginola admitted: "He did not headbutt me." 
Referee David Elleray showed 10 yellow cards and two reds in the heated clash - and he indicated 
that the sending off of Ljungberg was for butting. But Ginola said he had been poleaxed by an object
thrown from the crowd and offered his support if Arsenal try to have Ljungberg's red card overturned.

Ginola said: "Freddie did not butt me. I didn't know he had been sent off for that. I have no 
problem telling the FA this. I was just looking at what was going on and I was then hit in the face 
by something." 

Ginola was left with a lump on his forehead due, according to stewards, to a coin thrown on to the 
pitch by Spurs fans. 

Ljungberg could still be in trouble for making a V-sign to spectators after he had been dismissed, 
and Arsenal must accept Martin Keown's sending off for two bookings and the extra suspension which 
Patrick Vieira earned by being cautioned. >{? It was Vieira's fifth Premiership booking this season,
which means a further one-match ban to add to the six-game sentence he starts on Thursday for the 
spitting incident at West Ham. 

But Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said the worst clash yesterday went unpunished. He said: "Petit's 
head is open. It was done by Tim Sherwood's elbow and that was clear to me." 

But Sherwood rejected Wenger's allegations. He said: "I was unaware there was any fuss about it. I 
heard Petit say to the referee 'elbow, elbow' but anyone who watched it on TV will have seen that I 
caught him with my head."