To you, No. 16, Aaron Ramsey.

We all saw what happened to Aaron Ramsey on Saturday night. A very clumsy Ryan Shawcross caused a 19 year old to have an Eduardo-esque leg break. Ramsey had a compound fracture, snapping both his fibia and tibula. However, some say that Eduardo's was worse as he ruptured nerve endings while Ramsey didn't, so that should be atleast a good 10 months out.

All because of a clumsy tackle. Quite obviously, Shawcross didn't intend to break his leg, there was no malice in his tackle. These tackles happen quite often, they're very common. In fact, in the last 4 years, 3 Arsenal players have had similar fractures. This only goes to show that there needs to be a crackdown on such tackles. Wenger went a little overboard condemning the tackle, because it was clear that this was different from Martin Taylor's tackle on Eduardo 2 years ago. He went for Eduardo, he got Eduardo.

The FA should have a greater punishment reserved for such challenges. The more such tackles, the more Diaby/Eduardo/Ramsey -type injuries.

On February 23rd, 2008 Arsenal went to St. Andrews needing a win to stay top in the Premier League. They had just lost at the Bridge to Chelsea and needed this win. But less than 5 minutes from the kick-off, Martin Taylor literally stomped Eduardo's leg into nearly 2. The Croatian was stretchered off, with an oxygen mask. The Arsenal were visibly shaken and were all over the place. Birmingham were awarded a free kick and McFadden stepped up to the plate. The Scottish international scored.

After the break, Arsenal still looked out of sorts. But to change everything, Walcott scored off an Adebayor assist and scored yet again after 5 minutes. Arsenal looked set to ravage the Birmingham countryside. But they didn't take their chances and a highly controversial late penalty was awarded to Birmingham who took it gleefully and signalled Arsenal's following run of bad form and 3rd place finish.

Two years and 4 days later, on February 27th, 2010, it was away to Stoke City. The Britannia stadium faithful watched a Rory Delap throw converted into a goal within the first 10. The man throws like a quarterback, I tell you. We weren't on top of our game for a bit, but Nicklas Bendtner scored after half an hour. We came into the second half, all guns blazing and look set to break the deadlock when Ryan Shawcross challenged Aaron Ramsey, and you know the rest. We were mentally shocked after the incident, and it threatened to pull us back in our realistic title bid. We were awarded a late penalty, and we scored it. The Captain did us proud. Vermaelen scored another to wrap it up at 1-3 to the Gunners.

Two years ago, Birmingham were awarded the penalty, Birmingham scored, Arsenal lost the title. Two years ago, the Captain Willian Gallas lost his cool and the team fell apart under the horrific circumstances.

Two days ago, Arsenal were awarded the penalty, Arsenal scored, Arsenal look better set to win the title. A very mature 22 year-old captain, Cesc Fabregas kept his cool and rallied the young troops with an average age of 23. The young Gunners showed their mental resilience. Two days ago Aaron Ramsey broke his leg and behind that incident, The Arsenal are more united than ever. We have an easier run of fixtures than Chelsea and Man Utd, while they face each other. We have a realistic title bid, although it will be very close.
Let's dedicate this title bid to Aaron Ramsey like we dedicated it to Eduardo two years ago.

This time, let's win it.