Martin Taylor Subject Of Death Threats Following Horriffic Injury To Eduardo

Birmingham defender Martin Taylor has been the subject of death threats after his challenge on Eduardo left the Arsenal star with a broken leg.

Croatian fans, angry at Eduardo being ruled out of the Euro 2008 finals, are among supporters who have posted threatening messages on various internet sites.

One website specifically set up after the incident during Saturday's 2-2 draw at St Andrews has already received 27,000 messages directed at the former Blackburn player.


And security personnel had to restrain Croatian journalists who ran onto the road and tried to get into Taylor's car as he left the club's Wast Hills training complex on Monday.

But Taylor has received many messages of support from people inside the game of football which Blues manager Alex McLeish claimed had helped to limit the psychological damage he could have suffered.

McLeish admitted that Taylor may have been unable to continue during Saturday's game had he not been given a red card by referee Mike Dean after the third minute incident.

Birmingham striker James McFadden is backing Taylor to put behind him the trauma of unintentionally breaking Eduardo's leg.

Taylor will have to wait at least a month before he can return to action after he collected an automatic three-match ban for his sending off.

The only good news on this injury is that Eduardo is expected to be back this year, but it will take a lot of work for him to recover from that type of injury.

I'm sure that Terry Taylor is sorry for what he did, in fact, he tried to apoligize right after the injury but it was too little too late.

Was the suspension enough? Sure. Taylor's sorry for what he did, and I'm sure he didn't do that on purpose.

Let's Hope Cooler Heads prevail on that side of the pond.