( dpa ) - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was furious after his striker Eduardo Da Silva suffered a broken leg in their match with Birmingham City on Saturday, saying that Martin Taylor, who was sent off for the tackle, should never play football again.
Wenger was raging after losing his striker two minutes into the match and vented his fury on Taylor, who received a straight red card for the challenge.
"The tackle was horrendous and this guy should never play football again," Wenger said.
"That kind of thing was waiting to happen to one of our players. It's just not acceptable. If that is football, we are better to stop it. I am hugely disappointed.
"I've seen some bad ones but they're not always punished with broken legs. I know that they say 'he is not normally like that' but you need only to kill one person one time. You cannot accept that on a football pitch.
"It was a massive shock for the team. Eduardo is a fantastic guy and for the players to see him in such pain and to see his leg in such a shape had an effect."
Eduardo received oxygen as he was taken off the field on a stretcher, having had eight minutes of treatment on the pitch.
The injury was so bad that many of the players turned away in shock, while Sky Television refused to show replays during the rest of the first half.
The Brazilian born Croatian international, who was the second-top scorer in the Euro qualifying campaign for Croatia, was taken to the nearby Selly Oak Hospital.
He will almost certainly miss the finals of Euro in Austria and Switzerland later this year.