February 23, 200817 yr I think Wenger has forgotten that William Gallas kicked Nani last week :rolleyes: As usual not thinking before making very stupid and biased comments -_- Hope he gets fined :angry: I'm still in shock about this all though, I hope Eduardo can make a full recovery :(
February 23, 200817 yr I hope Eduardo can make a full recovery :( I think that goes without saying for anyone who is a fan of football from any club and any nation. Tonight, Alan Smith was playing for Newcastle, and he suffered a near identical injury when playing for Manchester Utd, and he recovered after being out for 9 months, so hopefully Eduardo will be back playing in the Premiership before the end of 2008. But for the nation of Croatia this is a major setback, and a big blow to their chances in Euro 2008 in the summer, as I doubt even John Terry could recover that quickly from this very bad injury.
February 23, 200817 yr I've just been watching You're On Sky Sports and they think he'll about for a while, will be lucky if he plays again this year. The guy on the show who watched the game also said he didn't think Taylor intended it, and after seeing the clip I don't think he did too, it was just a very, very badly mis-timed tackle.
February 23, 200817 yr It was mistimed and very unfortunate. You get tackles like that every weekend,it's just the don't often catch the player quite that badly!
February 23, 200817 yr Pictures of the injury below... Taylor looks like he's smiling in this one :manson: what a dick. Still pictures can be very misleading. I've now seen the full sequence on MOTD and Taylor was not smiling.
February 23, 200817 yr No, definitely not. On the subject of horrific challenges, Martin Taylor's chalenge on Eduardo looks like a yellow card offense when compared to this challenge from Roy Keane which DID end a career. fJuxKrnTP-k
February 24, 200817 yr Boro Primorac yesterday gave an interview over the phone for one croatian TV. He siad that Dudu is in teh hospital in Birmingham, yesterday in late afternoon they preformed a surgey. Arsenal's doctors are with him. He didnt want to say anythin else. Edited February 24, 200817 yr by LondonSKY
February 24, 200817 yr Author Im glad Wenger retracted his statement about Taylor as read out by Gary Linekar last night though. :)
February 24, 200817 yr Author Just found this on youtube looking for footage of Gallas' hissy fit, i wont put the actual vid in my post as it my upset some people http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gSEJDcB8i1A I wont say enjoy, but you know what i mean.
February 24, 200817 yr http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v197/80/25/687572715/n687572715_339438_2427.jpg :rofl:
February 24, 200817 yr No, definitely not. On the subject of horrific challenges, Martin Taylor's chalenge on Eduardo looks like a yellow card offense when compared to this challenge from Roy Keane which DID end a career. fJuxKrnTP-k I remember that :o Wasn't that just pure revenge :angry: That should have been a life ban if it was that incident
February 24, 200817 yr I remember that :o Wasn't that just pure revenge :angry: That should have been a life ban if it was that incident Keane even admitted he planned it afterwards. What a c**t.
February 24, 200817 yr My original opinion of the 3 game ban for Taylor has changed now to one that i know's going to be criticised on here, but hey it's my opinion. I reckon Taylor should be banned for the rest of the season, to get over this supposed "grievance" he's feeling now. I was speaking to someone else about it today and we both said surely Taylor would have felt something was wrong as soon as he made the tackle, yet as pictures have shown, he just seems pleased that he'd roughed up one of our key players. True he didn't mean to break his leg, but the intent was there to rough up one of our players, and i hope the FA throw the book at him for it. And yes, i would have felt the same if it involved a non-Arsenal player, not that anyone will believe me ;)
February 24, 200817 yr My original opinion of the 3 game ban for Taylor has changed now to one that i know's going to be criticised on here, but hey it's my opinion. I reckon Taylor should be banned for the rest of the season, to get over this supposed "grievance" he's feeling now. I was speaking to someone else about it today and we both said surely Taylor would have felt something was wrong as soon as he made the tackle, yet as pictures have shown, he just seems pleased that he'd roughed up one of our key players. True he didn't mean to break his leg, but the intent was there to rough up one of our players, and i hope the FA throw the book at him for it. And yes, i would have felt the same if it involved a non-Arsenal player, not that anyone will believe me ;) There's a difference between pictures and a filmed sequence. A still picture appears to show Taylor smiling but if you watch the whole sequence it was more a case of him thinking "I made a mess of that". And that was before he had a chance to see just how big a mess he'd made. Call me naive if you wish but I'm prepared to believe that he is now genuinely distressed at the thought that he could have ended another player's career. Edited February 24, 200817 yr by Suedehead2
February 24, 200817 yr My original opinion of the 3 game ban for Taylor has changed now to one that i know's going to be criticised on here, but hey it's my opinion. I reckon Taylor should be banned for the rest of the season, to get over this supposed "grievance" he's feeling now. I was speaking to someone else about it today and we both said surely Taylor would have felt something was wrong as soon as he made the tackle, yet as pictures have shown, he just seems pleased that he'd roughed up one of our key players. True he didn't mean to break his leg, but the intent was there to rough up one of our players, and i hope the FA throw the book at him for it. And yes, i would have felt the same if it involved a non-Arsenal player, not that anyone will believe me ;) Then Eboue should be banned and Gallas as I have seen them make far more malicious intent challenges during the season Your idea would kill football mate, football is a rough tough physical game, if players are going to be banned for long time for hard challenges and going for 50-50 balls then we might as well just ban tackling altogether and give players free runs on goal I was bought up in the era of watching Ron Harris, Dave Mc Kay, Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter, Tommy Smith and players like them and hard tackling even brutal tackling was part and parcel of the game You cant wrap players in cotton wool, injuries will always occur in a physical contact sport like football Ban a guy for the season for a hard challenge with no malicious intent and the game as we know it will die
February 25, 200817 yr Meh i'm totally in two minds about all this now, i've just seen a couple of pictures of Taylor looking quite distraught about it all, and apparently he went to see Eduardo today.
February 25, 200817 yr Author Tbf, Arsenal are so 2 faced when it comes to this. They're such bad losers and intentionally kick the sh*t out of anyone (Nani last weekend?) when theyre losing and dont even get booked. Taylor, yes he should have got a red card, but i beleive he feels genunine distress and should serve no more thn his 3 match band. There is no 2 ways about it.
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