Monday 21 November 2011 v Tottenham Hotspur away
1 Shay Given
24 Carlos Cuellar
05 Richard Dunne
06 James Collins
03 Stephen Warnock
02 Alan Hutton
31 Chris Herd
19 Stiliyan Petrov
11 Gabriel Agbonlahor
09 Darren Bent
18 Emile Heskey
Three attackers and one of those is Emile. That was one game that immediately came to mind. I'm sure there are many, many others.
He probably considered Petrov an "attacking player" as he went over the half way line on 3 occasions.