The Gunners boss again hit out at heavy tackles on his players after Abou Diaby was injured against Bolton on Saturday.
Allardyce said, “He is a very clever man in terms of influencing referees, officials and everybody in football.
”In saying people are trying to injure players he‘s trying, through the media, to influence referees.”
Allardyce and Wenger have often clashed over their teams‘ style of play.
The Frenchman accused Allardyce‘s players of targeting his goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski at set-pieces during a
towards the end of last season
before Arsenal avenged that loss with a 2-1 win at Rovers in August, saying: ”I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league.
”If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more sendings-off and bookings than anyone else.”
And in his latest swipe, the former Bolton boss said, “Arsene is almost, almost, affecting the officials so that you can‘t tackle an Arsenal player.”
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