Arsene Wenger is wrong to suggest Aaron Ramseys injury proves Arsenal are targeted

By Alan Hansen Published: 7:30AM GMT 01 March 2010

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Unhappy: Arsenal earthy education instructor Arsene Wenger believes Aaron Ramsey"s damage proves his group are targeted for severe diagnosis Photo: REUTERS

For the third time in new seasons following Abou Diaby and Eduardo Arsenal"s players have seen a team-mate"s career placed in danger by a critical injury.

But no make a difference how indignant Wenger feels about Ryan Shawcross"s plea on Ramsey, he is wrong to explain that Arsenal are subjected to tougher and some-more asocial diagnosis from opponents than anybody else.

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Wenger competence courtesy Ramsey"s damage as clearance of his idea that Arsenal players are targeted for severe treatment. But the law of the make a difference is that all teams who come up conflicting Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool know they contingency get their feet in early if they are to have any possibility of removing a result.

When players are told to "get their feet in," it isn"t an call in for them to mangle a guy"s leg, however. I cannot think of any arise during my time in the diversion when a player has left out to purposely harm an opponent.

At Liverpool, we regularly came up conflicting teams who were earthy conflicting us. Our higher peculiarity meant they had to try that proceed and we knew that the initial twenty mins of each diversion would be a battle. It is piece of the game. It regularly has been and regularly will be, but football is most cleanser right away than it was 25-30 years ago.

I have watched the Shawcross plea on Ramsey half-a-dozen times and my design perspective is that it was awkward rather than malicious.

The Arsenal stay will contend it was infamous and violent, whilst the Stoke people will hold the conflicting opinion.

Shawcross didn"t go over the top, he came in from the side, and it wasn"t one of those terrible, late tackles that can infer so dangerous.

When Eduardo was injured, following a plunge into by Birmingham"s Martin Taylor dual years ago, I don"t hold that Taylor went out to harm the Arsenal player.

Not so prolonged ago, Arsenal"s William Gallas transient a red label for a bad plea on Bolton"s Mark Davies. And given Nani, of Manchester United, was sent off for a tainted on Aston Villa"s Stiliyan Petrov progressing this month, I have seen may be 40-50 tackles that were only as bad, if not worse, go unpunished. The speed of football in the Premier League ensures that such tackles will happen.

Shawcross"s plea was clumsy, but the consequences have proven to be distressing for Ramsey. The Arsenal youngster is a large bent and it is distressing to see him humour such a bad injury. A cause in his foster is that he is immature sufficient to overcome this and realize his potential.

When I played for Liverpool, Kevin MacDonald and Jim Beglin suffered horrific damaged legs inside of 6 months and, as team-mates, it is an horrible experience to see your colleagues continue such injuries.

Both those players unsuccessful to recover their full fitness and the injuries flattering most finished their top-flight careers, but disinfectant has changed on so most in twenty-five years and that is in Ramsey"s favour.

The unhappy irony for Shawcross is that Saturday should have been the most appropriate day of his career so far. He knew that he had been called up by England for the initial time, but the outcome of his plunge into on Ramsey will meant that he feels all dull when he reports for avocation with Fabio Capello"s squad.

He appeared up in arms by the consequences of his challenge. The awaiting of going from that to the England patrol will feel surreal.

How will the Arsenal players feel when they encounter up with the patrol and see Shawcross? How will he feel?

By nature, footballers only get on with it when they are faced with something similar to this, but it will be a formidable incident for all concerned.

Football has spotless itself up so most in the past twenty years, though. The bad tackles of the past have been hammered out, but you cannot censure Arsenal"s players if they feel tough finished by.

But they are not subjected to special diagnosis only since they are Arsenal.