On the tackle on Eduardo... "The injury is the result of a very bad tackle. The first diagnosis we have of the injury is very, very bad. I would not like to go into medical details because I am not qualified enough but the first news is very bad. He is in hospital."
On it possibly ending his career... "I don't know. I would not go as far as that but it does not look good."
On other issues in the game... "It was never a free-kick on the first goal and it was not a penalty. Five minutes before that it was a 100 per cent penalty on Adebayor. But we have to take it, we cannot change it and we have to look at ourselves as well. We have to fight against all that. We should have killed the game off earlier and scored the third. That is why with any little mistake you are caught."
On Eduardo's injury affecting the team in the first half... "Yes 100 per cent. You could see that straight away it had a big effect."
On his half-time team-talk... "We wanted to play football and the game what we wanted to play. We did that quite well."
Its so sad, i was really upset when i saw it happen. Taylor has got to be taking allot of verbal beatings... I hope he can recover and return next season!
Great way to spend your birthday, in a hospital and have a ruined carer....
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> Please don't call "football"- "Soccer"...
> The British invented it and they called it "football"..
The British invented soccer, and soccer is what they called it. At the time, "football" referred to any of several sports (e.g. rugby). The British didn't start calling the sport "football" exclusively until after the name "soccer" had spread to other places (like America and Canada).
So why don't you call the sport "soccer", and use the original name?
Good point. If you've never had the pleasure of watching it, the most spectacular "football" is Aussie rules. Check out any of the Gary Ablett highlight reels on youtube to marvel at the amazing skills these players posess.
I was there at the stadium in Birmingham, when the horrific accident happened in front of us. Actually however the scene was far from the Gooners area and no big screen in there, so I could not understand exactly what was going on. Just the treatment on Eduardo was unusually long, so that we just could feel how serious it was. Anyway as I came back to London, I could see everything on the net like the links of this topic or Match Of The Day on BBC.
For me, the Birmingham City defender, Martin Taylor's terribly poor tackle is not forgivable as a professional even if he was not intent to attack or break, but lots of commentators here say even that a red card which Taylor got straight after his foul was too harsh. Recently I am recognising that Arsenal would be a very hated club in this country as like Nick Hornby disclosed on his book, Fever Pitch.
Now the injured Arsenal forward, Eduardo, is reported to be back on the pitch in 9 months. I just hope his complete recovery.
I'm not really a soccer fan, but to be honest the slide tackle looked to me about the same as most slide tackles (apart from the results). Seems like it's just really, really unfortunate.
I like the style of English football, which is very physical and full of power. But I think this accident is a different story from the style of football. This kind of tragedy could be happened in football, but it's not true that physical football is allowed to break someone's leg. If you like to have it, I think you have to have a decent skill as well to avoid the sort of accident. It was Taylor's fault, not Eduardo's.
But, I also hope he'll boost his talent through this incident like Pires, exactly!!
I know it's only half on-topic, but most of the reason I never got into soccer is the insane amounts of "simulation". I don't know whether it would help prevent accidents like this one, but I've often thought that they really ought to change the rules a bit for what constitutes a foul in soccer to make simulation less common.
Hmm, I'm not really convinced yet. I feel understanding it was a freak accident makes problems leave behind. But, maybe I'm still traumatised by the very bad day for Arsenal and it was happened in front of me at the stadium.
Ok, let's hope the lads bounce back from it and nicely beat another Birmingham club at home this weekend!! C'mon Arsenal!!