A Brummy journalist's reaction to Wenger's comments

Arsene Wenger's comments in the wake of the injury to Eduardo have been described as a 'graceless diatribe' by Pat Murphy of the Birmingham Post.

He argues that Taylor will now have to think before flying into challenges, 'putting his body on the line'. Erm....good!

There have been too many reckless challenges flying in for a long time now, I think it needs to be stamped out. Maybe if a higher profile player such as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo had their ankles broken people would sit up and take notice.

He goes on to write that a 'more cynical player would have stood his ground, berating the referee and the injured opponent, protesting his innocence'. To be honest, I don't think any player alive would have that kind of reaction to a broken ankle, a career threatening injury....except one perhaps, I'm looking at you Roy Keane.

He also ignores the fact that Wenger, thankfully, retracted his statements made after the game. He's admitted that they were 'made in the heat of the moment' without proper thought. But Murphy says Wenger's comments 'served to install two victims' from the incident. Indeed Pat, Eduardo has potentially had his career ruined, and Taylor has rightly had his reputation diminished.

Terrible, terrible article...biased sports journalism of the worst kind.