PEARCE CAN'T HAVE OUR STARS, SAYS FERGIE AND WENGER

ALEX FERGUSON and Arsene Wenger last night told Stuart Pearce: We do not want our players in the Olympics.GB boss Pearce hopes to call up Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs from Manchester United plus Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Kieran Gibbs and TheoWalcott.But he got short shrift from the Premier League's top managerial duo, who insisted London 2012 was a tournament too far.LONDON BAWLING ... angry Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger doesn t think football should be in next year's OlympicsLONDON BAWLING ... angry Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger doesn t think football should be in next year's OlympicsFergie warned Olympic organisers: "Players need their rest, they need their pre-season training.They need their recovery and recuperation from small injuries that theVget throughout the season.1 The intensity of the Englishgame is second to none. It is an exhausting, exacting season."I don't see how they can possibly get the players up to raise the bar after the season they have had in our game."Wenger declared: "For me, it is not a real football tournament. The Olympics is for track and field basically."If you look at the organisation of the whole summer, it makes life impossible for the clubs and especially the players.
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