Arsenal and Cardiff fans love you, other football fans are waiting for your brilliance and smile to return on the pitch. Be patient with your recovery, good luck and God bless!!

There must be something done to stop this ! This is not football in any understanding.

Im sick and feeling afraid before any game. I wonder who will have his leg broken next ?

Good stop this horror.

And blah blah blah, poor Ryan. Hes 22 and obviously had his mother driving him home, cute. I couldnt care any less if hes sad about this, just try to imagine yourself in Ramseys shoes. This shit need to stop ASAP.

- Kieron Dyer suffered an horrific leg break at the hands of Bristol Rovers’ Joe Jacobson.
- Dean Ashton suffered a career ending ankle injury at the hands of Shaun Wright-Phillips.
- Scott Parker suffered a lengthy injury at the hands of Arsenal’s own Mathieu Flamini.

All teams receive and have almost certainly dished out these tackles. However, now it is quite clear that the Shawcross tackle was just mis-timed, rather than malicious, it would be good if this site could change it’s article and not put the blame on Shawcross.

All the best to Ramsey. A prodigious talent for Wales and Arsenal. One of the best young players in Europe, certainly in the central midfield position.

There can be the difference between a fractured and broken leg, as I understand it a fracture is more of a crack than a full break (I’m no doctor though, so might be very wrong), whatever it is, fracture is generally less serious than a break (again, I’m no doctor). However, I’m pretty sure Wenger just used the word fracture to indicate that there was bone damage (i.e. a break). I suspect you hadn’t seen replays or photos of the injury when you made that comment. Having seen video replays and still photos, unfortunately, it is clear the injury appears just as severe and horrific as the one that Eduardo suffered. Ramsey’s foot/leg was hanging from where it had broken.

This was eerily reminiscent of Eduardo’s injury and hopefully something will be done and tougher punishment brought in. Arsenal used to be condemned for there bad disciplinary record under Wenger, he has since turned things around and we consistently have one of the best records in the league, currently we are second behind Fulham and impressively we are the only team not to have received a red card in the league this season. What is our reward for playing football as opposed to hacking opponents? Three broken legs in four years! We play the nicest football in the league and do it without having to resort to injuring other teams players. The tiresome, old chant of “same old Arsenal, always cheating” is clearly and obviously very much out of date and applies more aptly to pretty much every other team in the league.

In order for this league to survive at the very top it needs to offer greater protection to the better, skilful players who are, after all, playing the game not fouling (would you rather see potentially career ending fouls week in, week out or the skills of players like Fabregas and others). If the most skilful players keep getting hacked out of the game then they will not stay in the league, and who would blame them. The league should remain physical but not by cheating and fouling. The culprits of these fouls should receive heavy punishment. Another possible idea would be that a team who feels hard done by and feels there team has experienced attempts to kick and foul them out of a game can lodge a complaint. If it is felt, after a post-match analysis of the game, that a team, or a player in that team, has received unfair treatment at the hands of the other team then heavy fines and even point deductions could be imposed. Equally, if there was found to be no problem then there should have to be costs for wrongful accusations. There would obviously have to be an acceptable amount of fouling allowed, it would be impossible to completely eradicate it, penalties only apply if it is deemed unacceptable. This rule would obviously need tweaks and changes, I have only just considered it myself, but something of this kind would be beneficial to the league in protecting it’s top players and reduce the amount of, what is ultimately, cheating so can’t be that bad a thing. As long as there are measures to prevent it being abused (i.e. fines for wrongful accusation) then I can’t see it being a bad thing. There are other sports that one can watch for brutality, football shouldn’t be one of them.