Its not how many times, it was the stupid things he did to get sent off in important games instead of taking a backseat.
You are so inconsistant with your criticism. You talk about others passing badly, you obviously didnt watch him very carefully. He was so bad in one game, he got subbed when he WAS the sub.
Again you're wrong, he had been injured for almost 4 months on and off, injured for 2 months full stop, he was SUPPOSED to be on the pitch on his first game back without any reserve duty for a max of 20 mins. Normally people get run outs for match fitness in reserves before first team, other first team injuries meant he was put on the bench. he came on after 25-30mins. he was fine for 45-50 minutes(double what he was supposed to have played) and was only terrible for 10 minutes. The WHOLE team was playing badly and they had no excuse, he was utterly shattered and at least was trying. Wenger hung him out to dry, we had better fitter options on the bench, its insane a just back from injury player was risked as badly as he was.
But thats what we come to expect from Wenger, risking injured players and making our injury problems worse. As for 10 whole terrible minutes, I don't see Vidic being berated for 2 of the worst mistakes in the league this year causing a huge loss to Liverpool. He had 2-3 truly awful games this year from start to finish, he made some poor mistakes against Spurs that could have cost them the game, he was no where to be seen in the champs league final. But because Eboue, unfit and not match ready was played 3 times as long as he should have been and had a bad 10 minutes, he should be judged on those 10 minutes alone?
Nor were his sendings off in important games, nor is the 2 in his career for us over 5 years anything to get upset about. Considering Vidic I believe was sent off 2 or more times this year alone, and RVP has been sent off more times(quite a few I think) than Eboue getting all uppity about a guy who got sent off once in 25 appearances in the league with NO yellow cards a bad thing.
Everyone has a bad game here and there, I don't EVER call a player bad for having ONE bad game, even then if theres some kind of circumstances its ever more stupid to talk about that single game. For instance I saw Melo play a good what 7 games, and was woeful in each and every one, even then i made specific mention to the fact I hadn't seen him elsewhere and that its a limited opinion, maybe he is better than he was in the Cup.
Just a quick comparison, I knew Vidic had been sent off so I checked Utd's stats, there isn't a year that Rooney hasn't had more yellows/red's than Eboue has had. Vidic was sent off twice and once in the world club cup, with 12 yellows in the league. Evra has most seasons gotten more red's and yellows than Eboue has gotten. Someone argueing against his discipline, because he's had 2 red's in 5 years, thats incredibly low for most players to be perfectly honest.
Why are we wasting our time?
. I think that Arsenal have quality defenders that just don't work as a unit, Wenger really needs to get a top defensive coach in to sort out the mis-communication/lack of team work in the defence.
