arsene wenger has revealed that he was spat at whilst playing football in france   but that in those days he extracted his own revenge on the pitch the arsenal manager says that united defender jonny evans   who will be banned for the fa cup quarter final against arsenal on monday   cannot expect any mercy in the modern age of global tv scrutiny however, wenger says the practice was more prevalent in former days when he played for rc strasbourg in france, but that the lack of tv coverage meant it used to be less of an issue arsenal manager arsene wenger reveals he was spat at while playing football in the french leagues  jonny evans appears to launch spit in the direction of the newcastle united striker, who then retaliates  wenger said: 'today the television makes it worse i've been subject personally to spitting maybe my tackle was not good enough at the time nobody spoke about it 'when i played in france, it happened before but you didn't see it on television when you see it on television it of course makes it worse i was angry (when it happened) but i could control myself' asked whether spitting deserved a six game ban, wenger said: 'i applied the sentence myself i don't know the rules well enough it is rules we have to respect the rules they have to apply the rules evans and papiss cisse clash near the half way line at st james' park following the unpleasant exchange  manchester united defender evans has received a six match ban from the fa after the ugly incident  cisse already served a three match ban for violent conduct this season after elbowing everton’s seamus coleman in december as a result, the newcastle striker gets an additional one match suspension after admitting his guilt, while evans gets six but wenger insisted that the likes of evans and papiss cisse have to accept that their actions will incur punishments now that all games are scrutinised by millions of viewers worldwide 'we have to pay a price for that we are popular we are watched all over the world it gives us some responsibility as well when you do not live up to it, you have to pay for it how much it (the punishment) is, i do not care but you cannot say: 'ok, it's nothing' when you see in on television when little boys are watching the game, if your boy says to you: 'is that right?' you cannot say: 'yes' 'we have to accept that there are cameras everywhere, that means we are spied on always basically, from morning until night, and that's a little bit less freedom to go over the line sometimes 'it's good, it's good you know it's like now the doping story that is coming out in cycling now even if it's 10 years later, 15 years later, people will be less inclined to do it today because they think: 'oh, for the rest of my life that could come out, so i won't do it' cisse has been banned for seven games after accepting the charge from the fa on thursday 
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arsenal manager reveals he was spat at while playing football in france . but the frenchman insists he got his revenge on the football pitch . cisse and jonny evans were this week caught up in a spitting row . both  received  bans for spitting during newcastle v manchester united 