Poor Aaron Ramsey (PIC WARNING!)

[S-H]

Peeps,

Lets pray that Aaron Ramsey fully recovers from his horrific injury and can continue his extremely promising career.

He was clumsily tackled by Ryan Shawcross in the game yesterday which resulted in Ramsey fracturing his Tibia AND Fibula bones.

He had "successful" surgery (gotta love private hospitals!) but no-one can really estimate how long he will be out for. I'm sure it'll be at least 6 months and even then he wont be back to 100% straight away.

Thankfully the initial reaction is that the injury isn't of the level suffered by Eduardo a couple of seasons ago and since Eduardo has made a full recovery, there's no reason that (barring complications) Aaron Ramsey won't do so too.

Aaron is one of our most promising young players (for those who don't know, he is only 19 years old) and has the potential to be Wales' best ever player- better than Ryan Giggs even and Giggsy was the bollocks at peak.

Here is a pic of the injury, not for the squeamish:




Shawcross was obviously distraught by what he did (albeit unintentionally), left the field in tears and even needed to be driven home by his Mum pretty much straight after he was sent off. He is only 22 years old himself so will be effected quite deeply.

He isn't a nasty player and really deserves to be playing for a team much better than Stoke (someone like Liverpool, Aston Villa, Spurs level IMO). Hopefully he doesn't stop delivering crunching tackles.

He was included in the England squad- which was announced straight after the game, so hopefully he can continue his career without dwelling on what took place.

- Steve

[Jason]

Indeed :/ That was really unfortunate... The commentators didn't really notice how bad it was until he was down for about a minute too.

Accidental, but still horrific! The image hasn't loaded for me Steve!

At least Arsenal won, we could win the league easily! 3 points off Chelski now who have to play Man Utd.

[S-H]

Oh, here is the URL: twitpic.com/15ooxg/full

I actually noticed it as soon as the camera closed in. I said to my Mum (who is an Arsenal fan too) "his ***ing leg has snapped!".

It's good we went on to win the game, it showed a lot of balls. We completely caved in against Birmingham 2 seasons ago but we were determined to win this game. We're definately in the driving seat with an easier run-in than both Chelski and Man U with them still to play each other and only 1 win behind.

I don't think we'll lose another game this season.

[themaidenmaniac]

It was a right nasty one. These teams always tend to go in extra hard against arsenal to stop them playing, thats why they're always having bones snapped. other news: colin wa*ker is heading for QPR? lol

[S-H]

Yeah, although Wenger is always overly critical of other team's physicality, he has a point when he says it can't be coincedence that we've had 3 broken legs in 5 seasons.

I can remember a game against Blackburn where everytime there was a tackle on 1 of our players, the Blackburn players went in 10% harder than usual. It's probably seen as no bad thing by opposing managers if our ball players can't continue in that game.

As far as I know, Colin Wanker will go to QPR when them and Palace agree on a componsation package. It would be great if he does go since he'll get them relegated and I hate the QPR top dogs!

I'm in the middle of getting Redknapp sacked from Spurs and bringing Warnock in.