Arsene Wenger maintains teams are continually being instructed to kick Arsenal off the park.
Striker Eduardo is facing at least nine months of rehabilitation after he was left with a broken leg and dislocated ankle following a challenge from Martin Taylor at Birmingham last weekend.
While Wenger's initial harsh stance on the Blues defender - whom he had declared should be "banned for life" - has softened on reflection, claiming the player has since been given the "benefit of the doubt", the Gunners boss is clear in his own mind as to just what approach opposition coaches adopt when giving their team talk ahead of taking on Arsenal.
Blues manager Alex McLeish had said in the build-up to last weekend's game that his men needed to "demonstrate more toughness at the back" with a "wee bit of steel".
It is not the first time Wenger's squad have come up against a physical approach aimed to knock them from their usual stylish game, which has swept Arsenal to the top of the table, and the Frenchman does not expect it to be the last.
Wenger, whose side host top-six hopefuls Aston Villa tomorrow, said: "I am long enough in the game to know what happens in the dressing rooms before the games and I believe at the moment is not the right moment to talk about that - but at some stage, when I am not in the job any more, I can talk to you about it."
The Arsenal boss added: "How many times did I sit in a press conference and hear 'oh, they got in your face today and you did not find an answer'.
"I ask my teams to play football and what the other managers do is down to their responsibility. We try to play football.
"The guys you should ask this question to is not me, it is the opposition manager."
Wenger reflected: "In this case [Taylor] maybe it was an accident and we have to deal with that.
"We have been punished for something we have not committed.
"But we have to get on with it now and we deserve at least the right to focus on the game against Villa tomorrow and put that story behind us."
Wenger, though, insists Arsenal continue to be hard done by.
He said: "The real basic problem in this league is that for the past three years we are the team which has committed less fouls than any other team, the team who is fouled more than any other team, the team who is punished more than any other team - and I do not read that anywhere.
"Every four fouls, Arsenal gets a yellow card and every nine fouls some other teams get yellow cards.
"The numbers are available for everybody in the statistics. Look at them."
Wenger added: "We lost [Abou] Diaby two years ago [against Sunderland], and it was an unbelievable foul on him.
"Also, I should invite you sometimes to come into the dressing room and look at the legs of [Alex] Hleb after a game. You would be amazed.
"But what is happening is not a surprise to us."
Wenger's side have always attracted praise for the way they approach the game - but there have also been plenty of men with a steely edge of their own.
The dismissal of Ivory Coast winger Emmanuel Eboue in the FA Cup defeat at Manchester United was the 72nd red card under Wenger since his arrival in September 1996.
The likes of Martin Keown, midfielder Emmanuel Petit and captain Patrick Vieira were all no stranger to the odd hefty challenge.
Wenger, however, today insisted: "If you meet one player in my career, in my life, that I have asked to kick somebody then I would like you to introduce him to me.
"I take responsibility when I have to, but you cannot say that Arsene does not try to play football and that Arsene plays to commit fouls.
"At the moment, we have been punished more than anybody else in this game."
Despite all of the controversy at St Andrews - where captain William Gallas lost his cool following the Blues' last-gasp equaliser from the penalty spot - Arsenal remain in the driving seat at the top of the Barclays Premier League, three points ahead of United.
AC Milan await in the second leg of their Champions League clash at the San Siro on Tuesday night, so at least Wenger's squad have the perfect opportunity to let their football grab the headlines once again.
"It has been a difficult week because we have been deeply hurt by what happened on Saturday. But we have recovered and are ready to focus on tomorrow's game and we will get a strong response from the team," he said.
"That is the number one priority because it is a good test for us tomorrow to see how well we can respond under difficult circumstances like that and to see how well we have recovered from it. I am quite optimistic."
