Comments on: What’s the Right Punishment for Martin Taylor?

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:30:41 +0000

Brian O. don`t talk rubbish. Eduardo will still be earning ridiculous amounts of money. So Eduardo is more important then starving kids in Africa?. Ffs man wake up. A life time ban? Come off it, Viera did tackles like this and never broke any body’s legs. It was a accident and nothing else. So if you care go to a game and actually learn the rules. It is not illegal to put one foot in for a tackle. Eduardo moved the ball from Taylors grasp and his leg was implanted. Bardsley did a horrendous tackle on Pienaar the other week (Sunderland Vs Everton) and Pienaar didn`t break his leg did he?

Well done Kirby, your comment is correct

By: Ruben

Ruben — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:21:46 +0000

I think the same period as Eduardo to recover from his injury plus 3 games would be OK.

By: john

john — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:37:04 +0000

I actually agree with Juan on this. I think when you injure someone with a studs up tackle, you should be suspended through the duration of the other player’s injury. Jon is right (although his lack of an ‘h’ clearly indicates inferiority): as a professional athlete you run the risk of serious injuries – but I’m not opposed to a league in which when you go in for a reckless studs up tackle, you risk taking a seat for a very long time.

By: dan the man

dan the man — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:24:19 +0000

I dont think Taylors tackle was malicious, but plain stupid. Surely he has enough experience to know that you cant tackle a world class striker who is running at you with a lunging studs up tackle. Only 2 consequences could occur in this instance: a) the striker goes past you, or b) the striker gets hurt.
ban Taylor for 3 months.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:13:21 +0000

So if Juan and Albo have their way, there won’t be enough eligible players to even field teams next season. The injury is clearly horrible and studs-up tackles should clearly be deterred with red cards and suspensions, but bans of a year or more for a tackle would be a little much. Two of Arsenal’s own players would be in forced retirement right now after the Man Utd match. You step on a field and play a sport, you take a risk. Sometimes that risk is that you get hurt. The only person talking sense in all of this is Eduardo himself:

“It was an accident and I don’t believe he wanted to hurt me. These things can happen in football. I see this as a risk of professional football. That is sport. Sometimes you go up, sometimes you go down. There are very nice moments and there are very ugly moments.”

By: Albo

Albo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:07:36 +0000

I agree with Juan.
Taylor should come back only when, and if, Eduardo is ready to play again.

Studs up slides have no place in football, regardless of the consecuences.
Physical intimidation should be dealt with and quality players should be protected.
But then again, what would they do in England? …

By: juan

juan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:33:15 +0000

I think Mr. Taylor should be suspended the time of the recovery of Mr. Eduardo lasts.

By: Abby

Abby — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:46:45 +0000

Sheps-

The reason the “commentator” on Match of the Day was surprised is because he’s an idiot.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:54:56 +0000

Alex McLeish said with a straight face on tv yesterday that he hoped the referee would look at it again anad change the red card into a yellow.

By: eric-dynamo

eric-dynamo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:45:26 +0000

six matches? If ricardo clark in mls gets fined $10,000 and suspended for 9-10 games with a kick. then this guy is going to get suspended i say 3 months.