Pretty blatant elbow from Rafael. Can see the Villa players kicking off if this continues

Does it ever kick off in football? ? ?

It's just handbags at dawn.

OAPs have bigger arguments when in the line at the Post Office for their pension.

I'm not so sure. After watching a few more times on youtube, an looking at the position both players are in just after the tackle, its different to the positions they're in on the pic. I still think his ankle gave way before contact was made.

For a perfect example watch the Diogo vs Luis Fabiano video on youtube.

feel for shawcross the guy in bits yesterday and wenger comes out with that

Having just seen the photo of before Shawcross actually makes any contact, if Wenger doesn't know that is a broken leg, he needs help.

Im surprised wenger saw anything to be honest!

his usual one is "I didnt see it!"

No sympathy for Shawcross. His reaction to a hand-off from Adebayor in midweek was a disgrace. I actuyally enjoyed seeing him so distraught. Tough luck, Rag.

Sympathy for Ramsay. It was a terrible injury. Hopefully he will make a full recovery and it won't affect his confidence likes it seems to have affected Eduardo.

wow

how sad are you

I know Shawcross isn't "that type of player" (they never are ) but wasn't he the player who, for no apparent reason, put Adebayor into the stand when he was already off the pitch when Stoke played Arsenal last season?

I read an article a while back which said something like the myopia surrounding Wenger isn't from him, it's from "football fans" who go off on one whenever there is an incident surrounding Arsenal, usually attributing comments to him that he hasn't even made. He says a tackle is "unacceptable" and apparently this means everyone's sympathies should be with Shawcross. Odd, but then again I long ago realised that 95% of "football fans" are idiots.

I'd love to see how some of the posters on here would react if their teams were losing a player every season to this kind of tackle, given the hysterics smaller incidents often induce.