The referee Steve Bennett, said: "Two Arsenal players went into each other and I assessed the situation. No one was in any danger. There was no head injury, so therefore the game could go on. It's as simple as that." (The People)
Wenger asked: "Carrick had a hesitation later (after the Arsenal players clattered into each other) to kick the ball out or not but it was long hesitation. Why?" (The Sunday Times)
Jens Lehmann and Robert Pires confronted Edgar Davids, after Tottenham's goal unhappy that the midfield player did not kick the ball into touch to allow their injured team-mates, Emmanuel Eboué and Gilberto Silva, to receive treatment. (The Times)
Henry: "We got upset - they should have put the ball out. Because of the (Spurs) goal I can't give it to him - we will have to share it (Henry was invited to present Sky TV's Man of the Match champagne to Carrick, which he fulfilled for the cameras). Fair enough, Carrick should have given them the lead in the first half when he had a great chance, but he didn't. (Sunday Mirror)
Carrick's response to the allegation: "To be honest I didn't realise the players were injured. I just thought they had fallen down - if I'd thought they were injured I would have put the ball out." (Sunday Mirror) "I said to Thierry Henry I'd have put the ball out usually but it happened so quickly." (The Sun)
Jol said: "I have said I didn't see the incident, and that's enough for me. I told him (Wenger) straight away I'd not seen it because I was busy shouting at Edgar Davids not to run offside. People told me that of the two players who had gone down, one was starting to stand up and fell down again. How many times have people taken advantage of that and you've seen them getting up and then going down again?" (Sunday Mirror)
"You can see it on television. I said to Edgar twice 'Don't be offside', and then we scored. I had to hold back because he (Wenger) doesn't know how strong I am. That is a joke actually." (The People)
"Please remove your face from mine," was the expletive-deleted version of what the Dutchman actually said to Wenger at the time. (Daily Telegraph)
Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood admitted: "I didn't feel that Tottenham did anything wrong. He (Carrick) saw the collision (between two Arsenal players off the ball) and as far as I could tell, Davids was looking ahead, down the wing." (Daily Telegraph)
Henry told the official Arsenal website: "After we calmed down and talked to the (Spurs) guys, Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids both told me they didn't see Emmanuel Eboue on the ground. I just hope they were being genuine because there's been times when players have clashed heads and I could have scored but I've never been like that. I could have turned round and said it wasn't my fault they made a challenge and got injured."
Where Wenger's argument starts to lose substance rapidly – he compares Spurs to Villarreal. The pressure has quite clearly got to him before Arsenal have cemented a place in the final of the Champions League, while not taking the initiative to finish fourth away from Spurs with their last opportunity to do so.
Wenger said: "Against Villarreal in midweek they stayed down every five minutes and we kicked the ball out for them - and it was for less serious incidents (than Eboue's against Spurs). Until today people have respected the spirit of fair play enough to abide by it." (The People)
He added: "Tottenham behaved like they behaved. It's their responsibility, but I think if they had not stolen that goal, we would have won the game." (Daily Telegraph)
"For him (Jol) to lie about it was very disappointing because I just don't believe that he didn't see what happened. It was right in front of the bench. But if he wants to go home and steal a game and then say he didn't see what happened that is up to him. The difference is when I've said I've not seen incidents we have never scored a goal (excluding the incident at Sheffield United, when the club asked for the game to be replayed)." (Sunday Mirror)