pepe real madrid tackle! He should be banned.

I don't think it does though (get made out to be worse than it was), most people accept the fact that it was a red card and the standard 3 match ban. Some people think it was worse and vocalise it heavily, and some don't think he should have got a 3 match ban - your usual difference of opinion in football.

Back on topic, I don't think it was really a tackle :) It's not really that much worse than you see in south america with people punching and launching flying kicks at the ref etc, or Shearer on Neil Lennon a few years back.
 
BaZ87 said:
Not really. It was a clumsy tackle rather than anything militious. The injury was just unfortunate.
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Exactly. The tackle itself is no different to any tackle you will see in any game on any weekend, the tackle itself was fine (in that it was an honest attempt for the ball, but Eduardo shifted the ball quickly and wasn't malicious), the injury was merely unfortunate. Yes it was a foul, but that's all it was, a foul.

I would say I see worse tackles every match.
 
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Cant hack defeat. To be honest i actually think hes a good player but with mentality like this on the pitch cant see him being around for long.COWARD
 
Its the tackles aimed at the legs you have to be careful of, can end your career as a footballer. Rest of its handbags at 10 paces! :D
 
Might get flamed for this, but i can't help but think all of it could have been avoided if that tit didn't act like he got shot and go over like a sack of spuds for nothing.
 
Shamikebab said:
Indeed, far too many people jumped on the hate taylor bandwagon just because of the very unfortunate injury.
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The challenge was high and he had his studs showing, going in at a high speed. He might not have meant to break Eduardo's leg but it was dangerous as hell and it's always going to be a tackle that could end somebodies career.
 
Banning him from the game completely is a little strong, a 5 game ban should be sufficient, football is a mans game after all :)
 
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BaZ87 said:
I know what you are saying but i was more reffering to his implication that Taylor's challenge was militious and when Nokkon said there was nothing wrong with it, im sure he didn't mean it literally and was just reffering to:
'Taylor trying to kill Edd at Arsenal', which Tummy originally said.
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Have you actually being to watch Birmingham play ? or are you basing the tackle on that one game ?

I've seen Taylor play a fair few times, he isn't a good tackler, he's basically a big hatchet man.

I agree, I don't think Taylor set out to kill Edd, but it was late, and Taylor new what he was doing, he knew he was going in hard, because thats what he does and has being told to do.

Birmingham are a seriously dirty team, that play shocking and awful football.

/rant.
 
Tummy said:
Have you actually being to watch Birmingham play ? or are you basing the tackle on that one game ?

I've seen Taylor play a fair few times, he isn't a good tackler, he's basically a big hatchet man.

I agree, I don't think Taylor set out to kill Edd, but it was late, and Taylor new what he was doing, he knew he was going in hard, because thats what he does and has being told to do.

Birmingham are a seriously dirty team, that play shocking and awful football.

/rant.
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I haven't seen Birmingham other than MOTD highlights and live game etc but i can give a perfectly good opinion on the tackle in question.

Imo he's just naturally reacted to Eduardo knicking the ball away from him by sticking a leg out and unfortunately he went in slightly high. I completely disagree about him going in hard, in fact iirc he made the tackle from a standing position rather than run/lunged into him. There wasn't much force behind the tackle it was just unlucky that Eduardo's studs locked in the ground and his leg/ankle gave way.

Like i said previously, it was reckless and dangerous so fully deserved a red card but it wasn't militious and you see far far worse tackles hardly get a mention just because the there wasn't a serious injury involved.
 
What's wrong with everybody :/? He nearly ended Eduardo's career for christ sake of course there had to be something wrong with the challenge :/:/

It's also great how everybody here knows that Taylor only had good intentions and would never dream of injuring Eduardo on purpose, how insightful of you all ..
 
Taylor never went into hurt Eduardo but to say there was nothing wrong with the actual tackle is just ridiculous, it wise mis-timed, high and he went in so strong that's why he caused the injury to Eduardo.

There is certainly something wrong there.
 
Tummy said:
Supse it was Edd's fault for being in the wrong place at the wrong time then huh ? :p
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No, it was just unfortunate.

I was involved in a very similar incident playing football at college. I didn't go in to hurt him but I doubt he's played football since.
 
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What's wrong with everybody :/? He nearly ended Eduardo's career for christ sake of course there had to be something wrong with the challenge :/:/
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Cisse?

But yeah it was a horrific challenge! Its contact sport at the end of the day tho, u cant do anything about it if theres some mug on the opposite side that makes poor challenges.
 
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Thermaltake said:
Cisse?

But yeah it was a horrific challenge! Its contact sport at the end of the day tho, u cant do anything about it if theres some mug on the opposite side that makes poor challenges.
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Aye, I accept that the challenge was unlucky, it is part of football and it's something footballers obviously need to be prepared for. I accept it happens, but I don't accept that the challenge was fair and there was nothing wrong with it.
 
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