One of the perks of running an Arsenal news aggregation site is that I get to spend good parts of my day reading many stories about the team from a variety of sources which I can justify to myself as work.Firstly I think it would be fair to say that the articles from the publishers that we feature are in most cases well thought out and insightful, and often include original tactical analysis and good writing.However, particularly in the close season when there is little to no solid news coming out of the club and the Gunners are not playing matches, speculation can be feverish and articles can range from the insightful to the gratuitous, and in the case of the subject of this post, the downright fictitious.The story I'm referring to comprises a supposed interview given by Arsene Wenger to a Kenyan reporter from a newspaper in Nairobi called 'The Standard'.There were a lot of quite surprising quotes in the reported interview that have been quoted everywhere from Arsenal blogs to some of the most respected 'old' media establishments. The official Arsenal site has issued a statement refuting that Wenger ever granted an interview to the reporter and has requested that media sources refrain from attributing the quotes derived from the publication to him.I'm going to refrain from mentioning any of our blog sources in this article; I feel their existence is mostly to share their opinions on news and issues around the club, and as they are not reporters for large news organisations that while fact-checking would be encouraged by everyone, they can be excused from the sort of standards one would expect from journalists for national newspaper sources.The words apportioned in the interview to Arsene Wenger himself are also so out of keeping with the manner in which he usually speaks that it makes you wonder whether anyone working for these publications actually read them before publishing the story.I'm going to grudgingly link to the 'interview' at The Standard so you can see what I am talking about if you have not seen it. Just bear in mind that it is probably all a load of rubbish.One of the first sentences attributed to Wenger is :"You are welcome. I would prefer you call me Arsene, not Sir because I’m a professor, not Sir. (Referring to Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson)."Really! I'm pretty sure you can work out the likelihood of Wenger referring to himself as a professor on your own.Further supposed content from the interview included things about Capello leaving out Walcott from the England squad for the World Cup, and the most quoted which was this :"Manuel Almunia Rivero is a talented goalkeeper. In training, he is superb, the only problem is that he gets nervous on big matches, thereby making silly mistakes. After the World Cup, we will be making an announcement on goalkeeping."Whereas in fact Wenger is ordinarily very careful not to single out specific players for criticism, this is a really bizarre thing for someone to believe he said.So bearing the above silliness in mind what sort of site posted this news? Well The Daily Mail The Telegraph and The Guardian to name only a few. Some of these articles have now (quite rightly) been taken down.I'm going to leave the links to these stories up on for now as a record but as I mentioned before, it's really quite strange that this article got so widely quoted but it serves as a reminder to always keep a critical mind when reading any news story!It really is quite incredible that so many publications ran with a story without checking if any the quotes attributed to Wenger were actually spoken by Wenger.By the way, this current article was written using a feature of our new site which allows any registered user to publish their own blogs about Arsenal on the site - Just click on your image next to 'Home' at the top right of the page when logged into the site and go to Journal and you can write your own posts about Arsenal.Your posts will show up on the dedicated Journals page to be read by other visitors and can be submitted to the main news part of the site.