‘Arsenal striker’s broken leg affected us too’ claims Birmingham boss
by stresster on June 10th, 2008
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Perhaps a little unwisely, Alex McLeish claims that the broken leg suffered by Eduardo in February had a negative effect on Birmingham City, and was part of the reason why they were relegated from the Premier League - as well as not being very good.
The Express and Star report that Big Eck acknowledges that the horrific injury to the Croatian put a severe dent in the Gunners’ season, although cites the incident as a turning point for Martin Taylor and the rest of the Blues team. Quite whether anyone will have a degree of sympathy for this club is open to question, especially given the emotionally-charged accusations that followed immediately after the challenge.
He said: “It was a factor here at Birmingham City, absolutely. Martin Taylor had played very solidly for a few games in the Premier League.
“He was affected as much as Arsenal FC were and we were affected by losing him.
“When he came back I didn’t think Taylor was quite himself. He played against Wigan and it wasn’t the Martin who had been playing before the Eduardo incident.
“Our other centre-half, Liam Ridgewell, must have played with five different partners last season. The one thing you see with the good teams, like Manchester United, is that their back four is pretty much the same.”
Most Arsenal fans were delighted to see the back of Birmingham City last season and won’t be wishing them a speedy recovery from relegation to the Championship. Especially as Eduardo was denied this and played no further part in the Gunners’ season, nor Euro 2008 for Croatia.
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Tagged Under: Arsenal FC, Birmingham FC, Croatia, eduardo, gunners, Wigan FC
james - June 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Think about what you write. It was an accident - I’m sure their player was mentally affected, nothing like Eduardo of course, but still enough to put him off his game and unsettle their back four regardless. You’d have to be inhuman to snap someones leg in half and NOT be affected.
GunnersFan - June 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Arsenal fan here what a load of rubbish! Not the comments but the article it’s pathetic I hate CaughtOffside.
Mike - June 10th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
He’s right, they were affected, it’s called karma.
If gold, mcleish and all the other little mullets including the idiots in the media had apologised and shut up, instead of telling us taylor was actually the victim and trying to get shirty with Wenger, maybe we might have had some sympathy.
They didn’t, so we don’t.
rob-a-carr - June 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Birmingham can fuck off
they cost us the title and a great player
so they deserve to go down, i was overjoyed when i saw fulham triumph over portmouth on the final day of the season. u fuckers thought u had it in the bag……….pissed on your bonfire.
see u around taylor! ….
Bluenosesol - June 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Rob a Carr is that what you do for a living?. Bet you wear a hoodie you fecking numb nut - GET OVER IT!!!
RayParlourforPresident - June 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I have to say I am glad he felt bad about it, not feeling bad would have made him sociopathic.
Don’t like McLeish but the author of this article is worse than that tackle for blatantly trying to stir up a hornet’s nest.
Hating Birmingham for the accidental tackle by one player is a touch harsh, yes it is a shame we lost him in his first season, yes he will miss the euros, but both us and his country will get him back again hopefully a better player for it so there is no point blaming anyone.
any hatred should be directed at the antagonistic pillock who wrote this piece and shoved it on here, internet bear baiting at its worst.
guadaldino - June 10th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
A leg was broken, leaving the players dangerously close to loosing his foot FOR LIFE, and being put out of action potentially for a long time, besides automatically missing the current EURO action, much to the dismay of his country. Yet, what did we see? Birmingham’s club, chairman, manager, and players all chose to defend Taylor outright, plus the morally bankrupt pundits and British media claiming that taylor was the ‘victim’ instead. On top of that, the lies about them visiting and apologising Eduardo. Mind boggling, how low can you get. Birmingham may be a nice city but really the Birmingham FC sucks big-time. Now, they got the cheek to use that incident to blame for their relegation - as if they were up the table before that game. Now relegated, perfect! Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Bluenosesol - June 11th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Guadaldino, my nephew is a security guard at Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham and was personally assigned to managing Eduardo’s visitors. I can assure you that your comments are wholly inaccurate so you decide to believe the “say anything to sell” garbage that the media aims directly at sub intelligentsia like yourself. From time to time, following such a major run of events, McLeish will be asked his opinions. He has reflected that Birmingham have a conscience and as such were deeply affected by the Eduardo incident. He is not saying that the critical bottom line summarising the entire episode is that Birmingham were relegated, he is simply stating that as one of dozens of asides and reflections on the events - that the players were affected. For goodnedss sake lets get over it - even if it means come Londoners will eternally hate Birmingham - we are big enough to live with that!!.