In the wake up of last week’s tragic attack on the Togo team bus in Angola Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says that the Gunners will not be using it as an excuse to bring their players back from the African Cup of Nations.

He is much concerned that some teams can exploit the attack that has killed three people from the Togo squad as a reason to pull their team out of the tournament.

Arsenal maintains that these kind of behavior would not be of sporting nature and Wenger expects Emmanuel Eboue and Alex Song to remain there in the tournament.

On the official website of the club Wenger said, “It wouldn’t be fair, let’s say that.”

He also added, “Behind things like that, is it a selfish motivation or is it a real issue over security? We, here, are not in the best position to judge the security of this competition.”

He said that this is the reason why he don’t want to do recall his players. He adds, “If you organise the European Championships and you have an incident like that – it can happen, and has happened already – you do not want all your players suddenly to move home. International competition is international competition.”

Arsene Wenger even does not think that this may be a reason to even call the tournament off.

He gives his own explanation by saying, “It’s always like that. When you hear sometimes there’s unrest in the suburbs of London, you still live well in London.”