The Aaron Ramsey Injury

Yes, football makes us drink beer, howler like the Alouatta Alouattinae, pee our pants, punch the air and bite our nails. But I DO NOT EVER want to see this happening on the pitch again.

This 19 year old Welshman, fantastic player and full of potential, did not deserve this. Ryan Shawcross and Stoke as a whole should be held accountable. Shame!

See link:
http://acidcow.com/pics/...-break-8-pics-video.html

Oh, I did not know that "staying too long with the ball" was wrong. Aren't there other teams that "stay too long" with the ball? Barcelona perhaps?

If this happened to Wayne Rooney, Shawcross, crying and all, would not be on the England team for the match with Egypt this week.

@jguru, Shawcross's remorse was genuine. Remember the Eduardo injury? Mr. Bean retracted his earlier remarks that the guy who inflicted the injury (can't remember who it was) should never be allowed to play again. I remember the guy went to visit Eduardo in hosi and they just stared at each other - what do you say in such a situation?

But Eduardo is back now for you Gooners so even Ramsey will get through this.

If you broke someone's leg on a park playing football, you'd be taken to court for grevious bodily harm.
That dhead shawcross had zero chance of getting that ball on Saturday and I think what needs to ahppen is that the team that breaks a players leg should pay his wages until he returns or for a period of upto 6 months.

Dan Smith (Sunderland) breaks Diaby's leg. Smith's last club was Gateshead following a short spell in Scotland and it is understood he now works in a call centre selling gas and electricity.

Martin Taylor (Birmingham) breaks Eduardo's leg. Taylor is now a Championship player with Watford having dropped out of the picture at Birmingham.

Ryan Shawcross (Stoke) breaks Ramsey's leg. Get’s his name in the English team 2 hours later.

Coincidence? No…

This is not the first time Shawcross has broken a players leg. He broke Franice Jeffer’s leg at the ankle after a needless tackle from behind. And why not ask Adebayor what he thinks of this player? Adebayor was out last year for a month after Shawcross “assaulted” him when he and the ball were off the pitch.

Shawcross is a typical English centre half, which is something that he shouldn't be proud of at all. He is limited in his ability as a footballer and he is slow. This style and this type of player will NEVER win England the World Cup.

Enough is enough. Now FIFA, UEFA and the FA need to improve the quality and standards of referees so they can stamp these fouls out of the game. The referee had to look first at the injury to be swayed in giving the red card. Peter Wanton was probably fine with how the Stoke players were physically treating the Arsenal players, just as long as no Arsenal player got killed or parts broken. Unfortunately, Ramsey's leg broke. Despite pre-match talk of roughing up Arsenal's players, the blame should fall mostly on referees for allowing thugs to carrying out their threats.

Henry Norris writing in the Bugle: "The sooner thugs like Stoke and their gobby manager, brain dead fans, pathetic ground, officious stewards, awful pies and ghetto of a town leave football to those who can play it and are relegated the better."

Well put @jguru, and I think Wa_ithaka might have a point there, about compensating the plaintiff.

That said, I think personally if I was a player I would try and avoid some balls where I probably have no chance of getting there first. I have noticed that some of the top strikers avoid 50 50 balls, unless they're out for a revenge tackle. I'm trying to imagine the agony Djibril Cisse went through breaking the same leg twice, just before world cup or Euro cup tournaments. takes character to get back up and play the same way

@slammers: Arsenal are not a dirty team or even a physical one. And that shall remain for a long time to come.

There is not a single team in the Premier League that would dare to play Arsenal in a 'proper' game of football; they would have their cloth cut out for them. That explains the instructions from the EPL managers to target the player and not the ball.