Im with Aaron Ramsey and Arsenal thru and thru but i feel the allegation that Shawcross went in with the intention to break AR leg is just too far fetch honestly. If you study the video replay, you'd notice RS had a touch too heavy and was going for the follow up 50-50 ball when he caught AR with a heavy challenge. Dirty/late/heavy...definitely yes, but definitely not with the intention to break someone's leg. Besides, there was no beef between both prior to that incident. Also, he was crying while leaving the pitch and that clearly shows how bad he felt over the whole incident. If you watched how Roy Keane sent that flying tackle to Alfie Inge Haaland and how he reacted when he got up and talked smack and just storm out of the pitch, that is when you see the difference between by purpose and accidental.

Having also read about how RS broke Jeffers ankle and went in with a heavy challenge on Adebayor, i would again emphasize that RS is a dirty player. The Jeffers incident, no comment coz there's no video replay but the Adebayor one, definitely dirty challenge coz he went for the ankle while the ball was out and there was simply no reason for that slide as the ball was on the way out. No doubt that he's a dirty lil scum for the 3 challenge that he put in but maybe he didnt think he would potentially end someone's career with that sort of lunge. However to think that someone goes into a pitch to break someone's leg, as a profesisonal footballer, that is unthinkable. Maybe some lower 3rd or 4th tier division where players are not properly train both mentally and physically, it could happen, the violence and the lack of professional footballing brains.

Should he be given a longer ban? This is a sticky question. He's already been punished with a red card in the game. The rules states that a player cannot be punish again when he's been dealt with during the game.

i sure arsenal will win home to porto ... and in the league ... is still wide open ... man utd and chelsea will sure drop points since still compete in CL ... same to gunners ... who drop lesser point will be the champion ...

Well done. Go out in public and destroys a young player's confidence and undermines his ability. I'm so glad that we have a sensible manager who protects his players instead of all these rubbish ex-players talking as if they know a lot about developing starlets.

I don't buy all these crap that is aimed at Theo for now; in fact I pity the player. Before he even started playing at top level, he was hyped to the sky and now everybody is just turning their backs on him especially his own countrymen.

Now go tell Pearce and Capello not to pick Theo for their national teams. Then he'll get less injuries and play more for the Arsenal.

Well point 1 might barely be acceptable (after all how does a thug knows how to tackle well? )

2. I could agree with you but not entirely.When a player lunged in recklessly eg Shawcross on Ramsey ,it wasn't surprising for an injury to happen.Just not the extent of Ramsey's horror injury.

3. This I totally don't agree.The thug already had 'proven' track record of smashing others leg or lunging in recklessly eg Jeffers,Greedybayor thus his crying stunt just give me the feeling of 'Oscar Academy Award Winning Performance'.So I believe he would still goes into tackle with the same recklessness and carefree attitude since the media/managers will give him a 'Free out of jail card' and making him look like the victim instead of the one get decked should the same kind of thing happens again.I sincerely hoped karma will bite him fast and hard.

And finally..the media bash us,we bash the media,its just human nature to react to provokes. Maybe your team hardly experience media witchhunt like Arsenal did eg Eduardo injury/diving and the current incident.Well its maybe just me.Thats my opinion and peace
The bolded part should change into ENGLISH..then we can see how they react when its a fellow ENGLISHMEN instead of OL JOHNNY FOREIGNER that commit the 'sin'.
Well the main issue here is Shawcross broke Ramsey's leg and yet still have a 'tough few days' compared to Ramsey's tough 'months' .I believe most of us were more mad at Shawcross breaking Ramsey's leg and/or the media portrayal of POOR SHAWCROSS. I admit the England call up during the heat of the moment I looked at it as a 'reward' for that stupid stunt.But after cooling down I look at it as a side dish instead of the main dish.