Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes throw-ins should be replaced by ‘kick-ins' in a bid to make the game flow more smoothly. Wenger is unimpressed with the way teams like Stoke have adopted the long throw as a way to put opponents under aerial pressure. The Frenchman saw his side destroyed by two Rory Delap long-throws that led to goals in their 2-1 defeat at the Britannia Stadium last season. Now Wenger has suggested that the rules should be changed so that players can use their feet to put the ball back in play rather than throwing it in because it would encourage shorter passes. He told Arsenal's website: “The rule I would change would be maybe to play throw-ins by foot. Why not? I think it would make the game quicker.” Wenger believes the advantage gained by teams possessing long-throw specialists is unfair. “For example at Stoke, for Rory Delap it is like kicking the ball,” he added. “It is a little bit of an unfair advantage. He is using a strength that is usually not a strength in football. “Football is the most popular team game in the world and one day some crazy guy said ‘we don't use the hands'. “How could you have imagined on that day a game that is completely natural to play with your hands would become the most popular sport?” Arsenal to contest FA charge Arsenal is set to contest a Football Association charge of failing to control its players in a bad-tempered Premier League match against Hull last week. Arsenal and Hull were both hit with the FA charge after a mass confrontation involving 21 of the 22 players on the field at the Emirates Stadium last Saturday. The row started after Arsenal's Samir Nasri appeared to tread on the ankle of Hull midfielder Richard Garcia late in the first half. Hull manager Phil Brown has already hit out at the FA because he believes Nasri had deliberately set out to provoke. However Arsene Wenger, whose side welcomes Aston Villa to the Emirates Sunday, believes the FA has overreacted. Wenger told arsenal.com: “I think it is harsh but we will try to defend ourselves. I don't think it was a major incident compared to what can happen in a football game. At the start, the incident was created by Nasri's involvement but after that it was more players of Hull who were around it than Arsenal players. That's why we will try to defend it.” Both clubs have until Jan. 13 to formally respond to the FA charges. Brown complained in midweek: “Why we are up for a charge I don't know. I defend the players to the hilt. As far as I am concerned that lad (Nasri) has gone in there with the intent to start a fight, to start a ruck. “For us to come under criticism yet again is absolutely scandalous, and we'll be defending it.” Wenger will be waiting on the fitness of captain Cesc Fabregas for the visit of fellow Champion League hopeful Villa.
