The tackle on Cesc

[Eboue-Why?]

Setting aside the argument about Sergeant Webb's booking of our players and not theirs, am I alone in thinking that there was nothing wrong with the tackle? Strong? Yes, but Wenger's decision to make something of it by describing it as 'another one' just makes us look like whingeing wimps again.

[PI7ES]

I thought it was a good strong tackle, a tackle that the likes of vieira, petit, adams, keown and campbell would make every game.

[Block91Broox]

Yes he won the ball but the point is that the 'scissor tackle' is now outlawed and punishable with at least a yellow card.

It was a scissor tackle, of that no-one can deny.

The reason it is outlawed was due to the fact that it caused so many knee's to be snapped. Interior and anterior cruciate ligament injuries were accounted to this type of tackle in games on a very high percentage (something like 88% if memory serves me).

There is no issue with the way Gardener won the ball with his right leg but the wat his left comes around is the way those tackles do damage. The same way that Ridgwell tackled theo and bust his knee in the home game by the way.

[Old Oak Gooner]

Bad tackle imho, why oh why did Mr Wenger not substitute Cesc, he slowed down badly after that challenge .

[DB10GOONER]

The initial contact on the ball was a good hard tackle (oo-er!) but the follow up scissors was bad and as said by Broox it could do real damage to the knee.

Still wish Wenger would stop whining about oppo tackles though. Makes us (as a club) sound like bennies...

[donaldo]

Strong tackle but fair.The type of tackle "Snout" Storey used to make every game in the 70's

[flash gunner]

Hard tackles are part of the game this was fine in my opinion Shawcross and Taylors tackles were OTT, and Wenger moaning about this just takes away the point when he has got something to moan about

[hugh jardon]

Hard but fair, don't recall anyone complaining when Keown, Adams or Vieira etc would kick lumps out of the oppo on the way to lifting trophies.

Also Wenger has a responsibility for setting an example to the players, if he just said "We can give as good as we get" it would send a message out to our little kittens that they are expected to do just that rather than use it as yet another excuse for failure

[OneBardGooner]

Hard tackles are part of the game this was fine in my opinion Shawcross and Taylors tackles were OTT, and Wenger moaning about this just takes away the point when he has got something to moan about

Too fecking rye aye flash!.....makes us look like wimpo's as well....I'm sure the players resent his whining as well as us...

[1989]

We really sound like pussies moaning about opposition tackles after every game.

[wlchuccc]

Hard but clear tackle, he won the ball. It's just a bad luck that he hit Cesc's knee or leg in the end.

[play_our_way]

Gray Caldwell just saw red for a very similar tackle on Tevez. Grrr!!

Now people will say "big decisions" always favour the "big" clubs.

[topgoon]

Isn't the follow through as with Ridgewel on Walcott supposed to be a no,no or am I wrong

[Number 5]

If someone tackled me on the pitch like that, I'd stamp on their fucking head.

There is no place for tackles like that on a football pitch. It's more of that let him know you're here early on bullshit. Take the ball then the man. There is a time when you can take both but generally it has to be at the same time. One foot going to the ball and the other coming round to do the secondary intent, shit the man's a thug.