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Brave Eduardo working on return this year |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Eduardo da Silva, who fractured his fibula as well as dislocated his ankle after a horrific challenge by Martin Taylor of Birmingham should be able to make a full recovery by this year, as reported by his club Arsenal. The challenge has since been escalating news from all over including some very death threatening letters to Taylor. Eduardo, who has since come forward to offer his forgiveness to Taylor, underwent surgery in Birmingham on Saturday before being transferred to a London hospital is deemed to be okay now. Arsenal has released a statement pertaining to this that “Eduardo will have his leg in plaster and using crutches for the next six to eight weeks. After that time, partial weight-bearing exercises will be scheduled into a slow rehabilitation process. It is hoped that Eduardo will be running again in six months' time and making a full recovery after nine months.”. Most of the threats that Taylor received has been not so much from the Arsenal fans but through the Croatian fans as he will definitely sit out of the Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. This should be noted that as the tackle was totally unintentional, Taylor has since had his own share of trauma of the incident and is "mentally shattered by the whole experience. I've heard about the death threats and you are going to ridiculous proportions if that is the case. You've just got to get on with it and dismiss those things. There are some crazy people in the world, I think Martin's wife was upset at the weekend but he has come in this morning and got on with his life again thanks to the support of everyone who knew it wasn't a challenge with malicious intent to injure a player." Said Alex McLeish, the Birmingham manager.
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