brightlee

Be honest, from referee point of views, there'd should be straight Red and heavy banned for M Taylor... but on the other hand, do I think M Taylor means to have this kinds of tackle? I don't think so, because what I saw the photos, like the announcements from Birmingham and M Taylor, it'd be really bad luck....
think deeply, it'd be the first touch for Da Silva and M Taylor. Also if you watched the game, there'd be some ceremony to 1 of the favour players in Birmingham City passed away on that day. So I never feel M Taylor got intention to do that tackle. I.e. you could see why both teams got a shocked and they didn't fight each others... (do you get what I mean?) and Arsenal players were really generous to kick the ball out of bounds to let Birmingham City took their substitution after M Taylor got sent off.

On the other hand, I would agree what Arsene Wenger told to media after the game, it'd be the right time to review all the bad tackles in Premier League, I saw so many cases even referees didn't  give a card to player with some dangerous tackles....

brightlee

I did researching during lunch break about career stats of Martin Taylor.
One thing I feel really surprised is: He got 2 red cards in his career, the first red card that he received it, which is about 8 or 9 years ago. He also got less than 10 yellow cards in his career! In this case, it’d be proved that the words from Steve Bruce and Alex McLeish should be right, Martin Taylor is not that ‘bad’ person as you may think. It maybe really unfortunately case. If you could be Martin Taylor, you may feel badly after this incident.

[ Last edited by brightlee on 2008-2-26 at 01:14 PM ]