“about as unfair as a fair tackle can be” – what’s not to get here, it’s not a bloody foul! Go and play netball you bunch of nancy boys.

You should be embarrassed to call yourself a football fan if you see that kind of challenge as anywhere near an offense. Passion in the game is dying because of fans like you.

I’ll be the first to slag off the likes of Diouf for diving in recklessly with two feet. However when an honest guy like Ridgewell does his job PERFECTLY by timing his challenge excellently then I’m sure most football fans would agree he deserves to be lauded, not castigated.

At the moment, the poll shows that 70% of fans agree with me – even on this Arsenal/top four-based website! Stats prove you’re the one talking out of your arse.

I watched the incident, and no way was it a fair tackle. He could have got the ball and maintained possession for his team, instead he chose to dive in with a needless tackle that has led to another playing being injured and being sidelined for at least a month. This is not about birmingham per se, but about playing fair and intelligently.

“That’s the type of brilliantly timed, crunching challenge every manager in the world wants their defenders to make and I applaud Liam for his guts and determination to get to the ball ahead of Walcott. It’s a shame Walcott got injured, but 99% of players would’ve just dusted themselves down and got on with the game.”

That tackle was brilliantly timed? He hacks a player who was unaware he was there down, does in his knee ligaments, and he is to be applauded for being: stupid/unintelligent/a-poor-player/or-just-clumsy-like-taylor? If you knee ligament is done, you don’t just get up and dust yourself down (unless you are bionic). With your blind defense of your team, and seeming IQ levels, I ask myself why I should exchange any more messages via this platform with u on the subject. Keep your moronic opinions. Your team lacks quality, but instead of your manager seeking to improve their quality, he sends out his players to reduce the opponents. Lets see if that strategy will be sufficient to keep you up another season. Nuff said.

Anyone who genuinely believes that that was anywhere near a foul shouldn’t be commenting on football because they honestly don’t have a clue whatsoever.

That’s the type of brilliantly timed, crunching challenge every manager in the world wants their defenders to make and I applaud Liam for his guts and determination to get to the ball ahead of Walcott.

It’s a shame Walcott got injured, but 99% of players would’ve just dusted themselves down and got on with the game.

It’s seriously ridiculous that Arsene Wenger is trying to stir up trouble once again and I’ve had enough of his misguided ramblings.

The reason most arsenal fans were so riled over the Eduardo incident was that we had a player with a horrific injury, had just suffered one of the worst refereeing injustices, and the manager and players of birmingham went on the offensive straight-away over an understandably emotional statement wenger made about having taylor banned. It was like arsenal had committed the most grievous of crimes and birmingham and taylor were the victims (taylor was actually regularly called and treated like the victim). This was painfully played out in the media over the following few weeks. The bitterness and hatred against birmingham that brought to many gunners was massive.

So, its understandable that Taylor probably never intended the end result to be that way, but I still believe he deliberately tried to intimidate eduardo with his tackle.

On the subject of our collapse after that incident (we were 6 points clear at the top), thats purely down to inexperience and bad leadership on the part of Gallas. He got emotionally dragged into the massive injustice of that day and compromised his ability to provide the much needed steely leadership needed at the time.

If there are more brummy fans like yourself, perhaps some of us arsenal fans could learn to start liking birmingham again (yeah, I really loved birmingham, from when steve bruce was there and we used to loan you young players every year).

As I stated in my earlier post, I thought it was a hard tackle and close to being a bit late with regards the follow through in so much as I think Ridgewell knew what he was doing. But that is all part of the game to a certain extent, I just feel it was a rash challenge and in wake of the ‘Taylor’ incident could have turned the game nasty if you think about it.

As for you James, I am glad that I am a ‘moron’ as it makes running my very successful business such a chore, but hey, it works for me.

MattyB, if you honestly wish injury upon an English player and one who in particular has helped England to qualify, then you need to get a life young man.