Arsenals Eduardo | William Gallas | Betting
The week's big talking point has been the horrific injury to Arsenal's Eduardo. It's a terrible shame a player of his quality will be out for so long. Croatia are most unfortunate in that they will be without one of their better players in the summer but the man himself is on the long road to recovery and thankfully now out of hospital. He needs the support of all of football, Croatia, Arsenal, his friends and his family if he is to make a return to football. Fingers crossed it's not too long.
That said, there are a number of people who should be hanging their heads in shame in the aftermath of the tackle. Yes, it was a bad tackle. It was arguably red card. But there was no malice involved, no deliberate intent to injure the player. Taylor mis-timed his tackle and he shouldn't have gone in with his studs up. But there are hundreds of mis-timed tackles every week. Taylor is unfortunate in that his resulted in a terrible injury to his opponent. He will have to deal with that and fortunately the PFA have offered him their full support. He's a centre-back who has had just six bookings and one red in a professional career spanning 200 matches before Sunday. Those saying it was deliberate and signing online petitions to get Taylor banned for life should be ashamed of themselves.
If anyone should receive FA punishment, it's Arsene Wenger. In his post-match interview he said, "The tackle was horrendous, the guy should never play football again." If this wasn't deplorable enough, he then compared him to a murderer ("you only need to kill a person one time, it's enough") before switching to the apparently far more important matter of a poor penalty decision going against his side. Wenger did (sort of) re-assess his comments later, saying they were "excessive". He didn't apologise to Birmingham or to Taylor, but just excused what he said by pointing out it was "immediately after the game."
The FA should be having a serious look at his statements like "to stop Arsenal you have to kick Arsenal" and "that kind of thing was waiting to happen." Where's Wenger's ban? How can he get away with saying such things? If he had come out and said "I'm going round Martin Taylor's house to beat him up, after I've taught the referee a thing or two about giving penalties against my team" would it be ok, because it was straight after the match?
Then there's the club captain... Gallas, who should've been banned for Sunday's match, was a total disgrace. When Birmingham were awarded a penalty (in hindsight, quite harshly) following Clichy's error at the back, Arsenal's captain showed his true colours. Rather than defending the box at the penalty (the job he gets paid to do), he stormed up the pitch in a huff and sat down. When the final whistle went, instead of showing concern for the younger (obviously traumatised) players who witnessed the injury, he sat down in Birmingham's half, crying. Pathetic. If Arsenal are to have any chance of silverware this season players like Gallas need to step up and stop acting like their Manager.
That said, there are a number of people who should be hanging their heads in shame in the aftermath of the tackle. Yes, it was a bad tackle. It was arguably red card. But there was no malice involved, no deliberate intent to injure the player. Taylor mis-timed his tackle and he shouldn't have gone in with his studs up. But there are hundreds of mis-timed tackles every week. Taylor is unfortunate in that his resulted in a terrible injury to his opponent. He will have to deal with that and fortunately the PFA have offered him their full support. He's a centre-back who has had just six bookings and one red in a professional career spanning 200 matches before Sunday. Those saying it was deliberate and signing online petitions to get Taylor banned for life should be ashamed of themselves.
If anyone should receive FA punishment, it's Arsene Wenger. In his post-match interview he said, "The tackle was horrendous, the guy should never play football again." If this wasn't deplorable enough, he then compared him to a murderer ("you only need to kill a person one time, it's enough") before switching to the apparently far more important matter of a poor penalty decision going against his side. Wenger did (sort of) re-assess his comments later, saying they were "excessive". He didn't apologise to Birmingham or to Taylor, but just excused what he said by pointing out it was "immediately after the game."
The FA should be having a serious look at his statements like "to stop Arsenal you have to kick Arsenal" and "that kind of thing was waiting to happen." Where's Wenger's ban? How can he get away with saying such things? If he had come out and said "I'm going round Martin Taylor's house to beat him up, after I've taught the referee a thing or two about giving penalties against my team" would it be ok, because it was straight after the match?
Then there's the club captain... Gallas, who should've been banned for Sunday's match, was a total disgrace. When Birmingham were awarded a penalty (in hindsight, quite harshly) following Clichy's error at the back, Arsenal's captain showed his true colours. Rather than defending the box at the penalty (the job he gets paid to do), he stormed up the pitch in a huff and sat down. When the final whistle went, instead of showing concern for the younger (obviously traumatised) players who witnessed the injury, he sat down in Birmingham's half, crying. Pathetic. If Arsenal are to have any chance of silverware this season players like Gallas need to step up and stop acting like their Manager.
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