I very rarely post about my football allegiances on here - but today I wanted to say something whilst everyone is watching the Carling Cup Final.

I’ve been feeling slightly queasy since the Arsenal game yesterday, I watched as Eduardo went down in what SEEMED an innocuous challenge with Birmingham player Martin Taylor, and various Arsenal players including Cesc Fabregas went pale as they saw him laying on the floor and called physios onto the pitch, eventually Eduardo was stretchered off, and straight to hospital.

No doubt football talk shows will be alight with commentary about Arsene Wengers reaction (and subsequent retraction) - but really, should Wenger have retracted, because the more I look at it, the more I think he was right.

This is the tackle that ended Eduardos game, his season - and quite possibly his career…

Whether or not he meant it, Taylor is about 12 inches over the ball, and studs up into Eduardos shin - so even if it’s not malicious - it is incompetent and for that alone he shouldn’t be allowed to put on football boots again. The pictures in the papers today (that Sky would not even show on the replay during the 9 minutes that Gary Lewin and paramedics spent on the pitch yesterday) are just too horrific for words.

Quite simply, the result is this - Eduardo has had surgery on a double compound fracture to his leg. If it works, he might play again,  if it doesn’t - the options are too dreadful to contemplate.

I know one thing though - the Arsenal team must galvanise around this - and fight the remaining 11 games of the season in order to win the Championship and raise the trophy, if only so that this can happen again:

Good Luck Eduardo.