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verytallgirl

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That´s the question. By looking at the pictures I think Eduardo´s injury is worse than that of Alan Smith. I mean, geez, HIS ANKLE JUMPED OUT! ;(((( I just hope he will recover - somehow.

I didn't want to mention Busst, but this is so similar to that and he never recovered. The upset on the other player's faces says it all - they know damn well that this injury might be it for him.

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I doubt that Eduardo will never play again. People have mentioned his injury being similar to the Coventry City bloke that unfortunately ended his career with a snapped leg. Djibril Cisse has snapped both legs and still came back to play at the same level he did before his terrible injuries (yes I know, he's not very good and that level is fairly low).

Thing is leg breaks are bad...but it looks like the ankle. If you've messed up a joint it's got to be worse, right?

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Daley

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Made me actually sick to my stomach. Absolutely disgracful tackle. He should be banned for a very long time.

He looks fairly pleased with himself does Taylor.

http://i32.tinypic.com/femn2p.jpg

I really hope Eduardo comes back from this, probably the best finisher around.

Seeing that makes me think he should be banned for life, the smug grin is the most sickening picture of all. Just saw on MOTD that Wenger has said he changed his mind. He shouldn't have, he was right.

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Just saw the slow-mo of the Eduardo tackle on MoTD :wacko: I'm incensed!

That lad will not play football at this level again. It'll take years of physiotherapy just to walk properly. His foot was practically snapped off his leg.

I hope that a framework exists for him to be compensated by Taylor or Birmingham because a message needs to be sent out that managers can not send players out to deliberately rough-up the opposition if they can't play at the same level.

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Dude Ranch

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Seeing that makes me think he should be banned for life, the smug grin is the most sickening picture of all.

According to the Football thread it's too grainy to tell anything and it looks like a face on Mars, ie an illusion. Unbelievable.

I feel a bit daft but it's really shaken me up. I feel so sorry for the bloke. I can just see him dancing around the pitch and now it's in the balance. One minute he's one of Europe's top prospects and now some cunt has done him up like a kipper.

I think the lawyers have had a word with Wenger. He's not actually retracted anything as far as I can tell. I think everyone knows the score with what happened.

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Dandy_Sephy

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/shakes head

I can only agree, Taylor needs to be strictly disciplined. Is it possible to ban a player for the remainder of the season? Has it been done before?

How long was Cantona banned for? Granted the events are completely different, but I'd imagine the FA can punish a player outside of the automatic ban for a red.

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Dude Ranch

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a message needs to be sent out that managers can not send players out to deliberately rough-up the opposition if they can't play at the same level.

I've been saying that for so long and you just get laughed at and told your players should get on with it like men. It keeps being said but this was going to happen sooner or later. I think the incident, the fact that it's a typical challenge nowadays, the tactics that leads to this kind of thing and the reaction of media and certain people in the game goes to show what a sorry old state our game is in.

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Couldn't agree more. I can't remember the number of times I've winced and thought "if he'd connected with him properly there..."

Well, Taylor did.

Yes, it's been coming, not necesarily just for us but these kind of tackles have been flying about all season so this was overdue. Add in the "kick Arsenal to stop them" idea that is peddled and well, this is what we have got today. I feel sick. The Football Thread replies were a disgrace on here but I shouldn't have expected anything more from this place.

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Just saw the injury on MOTD and I feel really sorry for Eduardo.

On close inspection of the stills, it appears that the only thing keeping his foot attached to his leg are the tendons on the outside of the limb. I can't see him returning to the game at this level for a long time (if ever) I hate to say.

:lol:

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It was horrible.

It does bring up an interesting point for me. Just say someone purposefully, or rather is incompetent enough, to end your career. What could you do about it in another walk of life?

At the very least take comfort in the fact that the guy will get THE best medical care available, he's going to be well loved and much goodwill going out to him from the fans, and he's going to be looked after by the club etc.

Worse things certainly happen in the world, but because the game is close to our hearts and the image is publicised so brutally, it of course affects people that little bit extra.

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I feel that today arsenal got bent over and shafted in every way possible. The tackle was horrible i've not felt right all day since, it was a sickening event and to see taylors reaction incensed me. I'm not sure if Eduardo will ever be the same player again, i remember Diaby's a few years back and that was gruesome and to be honest he hasn't been the same player since he returned.

The ref had a shocker, it wasn't a foul for their first goal and we should've had a pen a min before the ref gave them one. Plus Clichy got a touch on the ball so it wasn't a pen. I'm gutted :lol:

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I think people are taking things a step to far by saying he was smiling afterwards. You can see his reaction on MoTD. Clearly Eduardo is screaming in pain and I just can't see how he'd grin at that.

I totally agree that he needs to be made an example of and as people have said there's a lot of tackles like this where players get lucky by not having their foot planted. I get incensed when referees don't see the intent*. Studs showing and above the ball is self-protection in most cases. Cowardly.

*I don't necessarily mean intent to injure, certainly not to the extent today but when these tackles have the potential to do such serious damage referees need to see the ones where a player is lucky aswell. You often see poor tackles as a split second reaction to something mid-game. The fact Taylor went in so hard, so early is a consequence of the 'let them know you're there' rubbish and similar cliches people throw around in football.

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verytallgirl

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As some others have pointed out, both here and on the football thread, the pundits' emphasis on the accidental nature of the tackle has been striking. I'm not saying the guy went on to the pitch with a masterplan in his head to snap someone's leg, or that he intended what had happened to happen, but surely this is why tackling with studs showing is classed as an automatic red? Because of the potential of something like this happening? I've just seen the proper, slow-mo footage, and I think he was going for the ball, and that's why his foot was so low, and that's why the injury is so fucking bad: right on the ankle.

Of course Taylor is going to be feeling horrendous right now, and I'm certainly not suggesting that MOTD, or Sky, should be running banner headlines proclaiming 'Taylor: Twat of the Year', but Mark Lawrenson must have stated 'it was accidental', or words to that effect, about five times. The opposite of intentional is NOT accidental. Studs were shown. Of course Taylor didn't calculate his optimum leg-damaging speed, but shouldn't a tackle such as his fall somewhere inbetween? WE KNOW that he didn't set out to do this. That doesn't change the fact that the nature of his tackle had a higher-than-average rick of causing this sort of major damage, and he did it. Watching Hanson and Lawrenson chant 'it was an accident' doesn't really cut it as the sort of analysis I would expect in an incident of this nature.

Ahhh fuck it, no point being po-faced about it, I guess; it's all pretty irrelevant. I just hope Eduardo achieves some form of stupendous, Lancet-article recovery.

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I've just seen the proper, slow-mo footage, and I think he was going for the ball, and that's why his foot was so low, and that's why the injury is so fucking bad: right on the ankle.

I agree with most of what you've posted above but I wouldn't defend Taylor by saying it was low, at all. Whilst I haven't seen the footage (I don't want to) just look at this picture (not graphic):

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It's over the ball at best.

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