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.