Eduardo injury

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Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva suffered an horrific injury in their premier league game with Birmingham. The game was stopped for 8 minutes before he could be carried out. They refused to show the replay of what happened on TV, can't blame them, seen the pictures afterwards (google it, if you can bare to look)

Nothing new you might say, but the question is how long should the ban for these kind of challenges be. Martin Taylor (the butcher who made the tackle) should be banned for life imo, for probably ending a perspective young players career. But he'll probably get only 3-5 matches ban. Where is the justice in that?? Professional sports are getting out of hand and something should be done to put an end to that, but people aren't reacting. This will be forgoten soon, and nothing will change.
 
The challenge was bad, but I'm not convinced there was any intent to injure the player. I can see the FA smacking him with a 2-3 month ban, which is all he really deserves.
 
No intent??? The ball was one whole meter away from Eduardo when they made contact Jesus Christ
 
Lame. So fricken lame. They should ban the guy for life.

http://thegoonerforum.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/eduardo-da-silva-injury-pictures-two-footed-tackles/
 
Id heard about him breaking his leg but didnt realise it was from a tackle, them were some nasty pictures!

Longer bans should be enforced, Roy Keane did end a career a few years back and that was quite clearly intentional, but never got banned. Theres no place for things like this in the sport
 
Man, that looks like Gladiator Soccer or something. It's funny that they didn't show the replay. There was a guy that broke his leg like that playing football here at the UF stadium during the game and they played it quite a few times. Still pretty nasty though.
 
Completely ridiculous that they won't show it on replays or the tele. Yes let's save everyone from themselves and reality. Let people see what that hack of a player calls a tackle. What a joke... FIFA and all the other sanctioning bodies are so slack on this sort of garbage and are also to blame.

Pathetic.
 
Looks like a bad tackle, they were saying on the radio that they weren't sure whether it was actually that bad and he was just unlucky because Eduardo was too quick but it seems a bit over the ball. The pictures look terrible.

Shame they lost in the end though eh?
 
I can understand why Sky Sport didn't want to show the replay although I expect MoTD to show it tonight.
 
To me the unwillingness is part of the larger problem with the world today. Let's protect everyone from reality. Oh sure we can have umpteen thousands of films with over the top violence... but God forbid the show the direct result of one mans bad decision (the idiot who made that kind of a tackle) in a sport.

And we wonder why people don't take responsibility for their actions or hold others responsible for theirs. Classic example provided by big stupid corporations.
 
Because soccer is just..........wrong

Its always been called football until the yanks got hold of it, but instead of changing a letter ('z' instead of an 's') or dropping one (color), they just completely revamped the whole name and during the process changed the name of their home grown sport of 'heavy tackling, padded up, no rules rugby' (becomes a bit of mouthful when repeated) to football.

Thats my theory anyway
 
I saw it live, and I was incensed when it happened. There was no remorse whatsoever, and not only did he completely ruin a player's breakout season (he was a recent transfer to the side), but they severely damaged the team's Premiership chances having taken out one of their primary strikers, which I believe was the intent.

Birmingham are just one point clear of relegation, with Reading below them having a game in hand. The challenge was not only nowhere near the ball, but it was in the opposite direction. This was an attempt to derail one of the top teams in England with dirty play.

I've also read some stuff that says the guy feels bad, but didn't think he made a whole lot of contact, which means he thinks it was okay. Modern sports have no places for butchers and goons. But apparently it's okay for guys like Martin Taylor and Marco Materazzi to go Bruce Lee on people whenever they feel like it, so long as there's "light contact."
 
Are you people kidding me? Have you actually watched the footage? The tackle was one footed, and about a tenth of a second late. Taylor committed to the challenge at the same that Eduardo passed the ball with his left foot, he couldn't have pulled out of it and there is no way he could have aimed for Eduardo's ankle, it was awful luck. It was a hard challenge, but not unlike hundreds of other tackles that get made every week. Had Eduardo not been caught so badly it probably wouldn't have earned Taylor a booking.
 
I did watch it, and it was a studs up, unnecessary tackle. The ball was past him before he even went for it, and then instead of pointing his foot (as in a proper tackle) he flattened out and caught Eduardo square. I'm not saying he intended to hurt him badly, but it's obvious that his technique was suspect.
 
It wasn't unnecessary, the ball was exactly where Eduardo's foot was 1/10th of a second before contact and had Eduardo not passed the ball at that exact moment it would have been described as a very good, if slightly reckless, challenge. I've been studying a slow(ish) motion replay and I honestly dont see how people could be calling for a life ban for Taylor. It seems to me that those people are either Arsenal supporters and extremely biased or very unknowledgable about football and just jumping on the bandwagon.

Please note, I am an Aston Villa supporter, so my defending a Birmingham City player is like Osama Bin Laden defending George W Bush.
 
Where have you found a video of it? I unfortunately didn't record this game (like I usually do every Arsenal game) so I wasn't able to watch it again. If it turns out I'm wrong, I have no problem admitting it here.

EDIT: And are you comparing Villa to Osama Bin Laden?
 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-1cjTODV1fo this is the best version of it I have been able to find.

I perhaps should have used a different example, particularly considering Birmingham's past Islamic fundamentalist problems. Tomorrows headline 'Aston Villa squad in extraordinary rendition following internet tip-off'
 
Watching it again, it still looks dirty. You just don't run straight at a guy and tackle him studs up, especially when he's running free. 90% of the time you're going to miss the ball (because he sees you coming) and you have a huge chance of hurting him.

Look at the last angle and tell me that's not a terrible challenge. If he were in the air, you could call him Liu Kang.
 
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