Bacary Sagna's hilarious leg break

[olgitgooner]

Sagna went down when he was in possession of the ball. And with no player anywhere near him.

How any stupid commentator could confuse this with a Drogba style sniper shot is beyond me.

[QuartzGooner]

Stuff 606.

Sagna is a high profile player, and anyone with a little knowledge of Premiership football knows he is not one who rolls around for no reason.
For example I did not like Gary Neville as a player, but if he went down off the ball then I would not suspect him of faking injury. He could be guilty of many things that annoyed me, but faking injury would not have been his style.
Same goes for Sagna, as far as not faking injury (I have little to be otherwise annoyed about with Sagna!).

Commentators seem to be ignorant of football knowledge.

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http://football-talk.co.uk/63093/video- ... agnas-leg/

[DarylAFC]

When I saw it my frst words were "Sh*t, that's the leg he broke". I thought (and hoped) it was just a pulled muscle or something.

Genuinely gutted to hear it's another broken leg He may be a bit hit and miss in his performances, but he's a very valuable player to our back 4. Hopefully he's back before the start of next season.

Get well soon Sagna

[OneBardGooner]

I've watched the video a few times and it's hard to say whether it was a purposeful act of stamping...if so the *word censored* needs his leg broken..But Bacs is claiming he DID it on PURPOSE! and Bacs doesn't strike me as a malicious person...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... ey-johnson

[Ray]

Professional footballer may be a bit dim, and prone to stupidity at times but the one thing they are experts at is knowing exactly what they are doing with their feet.

He may not have tried to break the leg but he certainly would have known AND CHOSE to give Sagna a kick as he went past.

Sneaky and dirty.

[Rosie_titters]

I've watched the video a few times and it's hard to say whether it was a purposeful act of stamping...if so the *word censored* needs his leg broken..But Bacs is claiming he DID it on PURPOSE! and Bacs doesn't strike me as a malicious person...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... ey-johnson

seems a pure accident to me, can't believe less than a day having a broken leg, Bacary is talk to L'Equippe.

[GranadaJoe]

I'm not sure about the FA being biased against us, but I think RRB makes an interesting point. I think that teams that have the majority of possession will always have more injuries because they are the ones being tackled and I think that when we're in our slow-passing mood (like yesterday's first half) we're inviting tackles.

However, I think there may be another factor at work. For a number of seasons now we've been portrayed as the technical, pretty footballing team who can be beaten by 'getting stuck in'. Morons like Hansen forever defend teams like Stoke (the lowest scorers in all four divisions by the way) when they've kicked the shit out of us and many people in the media have followed this received wisdom.
Personally, I think that getting stuck in is the way to play against us, but this has become an excuse for a level of dirty play that should be unacceptable. In previous eras we had players (Adams, Vieira etc) who gave as good as they got but we don't have any at the moment.

To have been awarded zero penalties at home in an entire season is a joke.

[LDB]

Come on lads, we're beginning to sound like liverpool fans with the way we carry on with stuff like this

[_James_]

It doesn't surprise me in what is becoming a tortuous season. I wonder if they were laughing when Muamba went down.

Aside from this, I reckon with this break that 6 of the last leg breaks in the PL were Arsenal players. Is there a point where bad luck stops becoming bad luck?

Sagna
Sagna
Ramsey
Nasri (admit this was one of out own doing)
Diaby
Eduardo

I made the other two to be Bobby Zamora and the Aston Villa guy who I can't remember. But really can't remember many others?

Did Nasri break his leg more than once, I am sure he did it 2 or 3 times.

[1989]

Wish Bac a speedy recovery. We need him!

[shu]

I was listening to it on the radio, it was that fool turnip Taylor taking the piss , plenty of anti Arsenal going around what with match of the day . I think that everyone is getting fed up with Wenger to be honest , once they ( we) admired him but that was in the past.

[Arsenal Till I Die]

It doesn't surprise me in what is becoming a tortuous season. I wonder if they were laughing when Muamba went down.

Aside from this, I reckon with this break that 6 of the last leg breaks in the PL were Arsenal players. Is there a point where bad luck stops becoming bad luck?

Sagna
Sagna
Ramsey
Nasri (admit this was one of out own doing)
Diaby
Eduardo

I made the other two to be Bobby Zamora and the Aston Villa guy who I can't remember. But really can't remember many others?

Did Nasri break his leg more than once, I am sure he did it 2 or 3 times.

I think Nasri had a persistent knee problem which had surgery for like two or three times between the broken leg spell.

[SWLGooner]

It doesn't surprise me in what is becoming a tortuous season. I wonder if they were laughing when Muamba went down.

Aside from this, I reckon with this break that 6 of the last leg breaks in the PL were Arsenal players. Is there a point where bad luck stops becoming bad luck?

Sagna
Sagna
Ramsey
Nasri (admit this was one of out own doing)
Diaby
Eduardo

I made the other two to be Bobby Zamora and the Aston Villa guy who I can't remember. But really can't remember many others?

Did Nasri break his leg more than once, I am sure he did it 2 or 3 times.

I think Nasri had a persistent knee problem which had surgery for like two or three times between the broken leg spell.

Bouma, Craig Fagan, Alan Hutton.

[North-Bank-1987]

I had to listen to the first half of today's match on 909. When Sagna went down injured the commentators (Taylor and ?) were quick to mention that the lad went down with nobody around him. They then spent a couple of minutes laughing at Sagna before it was pointed out to them that he had already suffered a leg break this season. They then dismissed this injury as not a leg break.

The BBC are treating Arsenal and its staff disgracefully. Laughing at a player who has just broken his leg while he is stricken on the ground is just plain wrong.

In their defence, you see people like Drogba and countless others roll around as if they were shot when they're actually perfectly fine.

Presumably, they just assumed Sagna was being a typical modern day footballer and making a big deal out of nothing?

I know WE know Sagna would never do that, but maybe the commentators were ignorant to that, and just saw a johnny foreigner rolling around for no reason and were therefore not taking it seriously?

Thats exactly why the FA need to start clamping down properly on the boys who cry wolf. If I was in charge Drogba would be cleaning toilets.