The injury to Eduardo Da Silva in the opening minutes of yesterday's game between Birmingham and Arsenal was sickening and as an Arsenal fan I found it very hard to watch.
We've lost an important player at the most crucial stage of the season. But more importantly, the career of a promising young player has potentially been ended by the reckless actions of Birmingham defender Martin Taylor.
Taylor, who according to Alex McLeish is “not a dirty player”, broke Eduardo's leg in this challenge:
(Apologies for the slideshow, most videos of the incident get taken down from Youtube very quickly)
Taylor will serve out his 3 match ban for a straight red card, and will be back playing again very soon.
Given that Jeremie Aliadiere was given a red card, and will receive the same punishment, for 'lightly slapping' Javier Mascherano in Middlesbrough's game with Liverpool shows that this is not justice, and I hope Taylor is given extra punishment.
However, I am glad Arsene Wenger retracted his statement that Taylor should “never play football again”. I felt this was slightly over the top, but understandable as it was said in the heat of the moment.
As I write this it's been reported that Eduardo has had surgery on his broken leg and is likely to be out for at least 9 months.
Get well soon Eduardo!
1 comment:
Wenger's comments were made straight after the match, he did well to retract them so quickly. I don't think there was any malice in the challenge - it was just crap
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