On a day on which Wenger witnessed one of his players carried off right in front of him having had his left leg smashed to bits by an opponent, it was Wenger himself who was subsequently found guilty of the most heinous crime at St Andrews by everyone who doesn't have any affiliation to Arsenal Football Club.
At the time when he made his initial statement that Martin Taylor should never play football again after what he did to Eduardo, I thought that he was not so much over the top in what he said but more irrational in his thinking.
And, even though I was fuming myself at what had gone on during and after Eduardo's enforced departure from the game (which, despite initial diagnosis, could still turn out to be permanent) I did think at the time that Wenger's comment was, as he admitted himself later on, excessive. But boy I can understand his anger and I don't give a flying fuck what the Anti-Arsenal brigade think about that.
People attached to Birmingham City have eulogised over Martin Taylor saying that he is a family man with a wife and three kids, that Martin Taylor is a conscious man doing an Open University course in Sports Science and that Martin Taylor is genuinely a decent chap who wouldn't hurt a fly and has a relatively impeccable disciplinary record.
Well, that maks it all fucking alright then, doesn''t it? How shameful it was of Wenger not to take this all into account when this oaf went and smashed Eduardo's leg to bits then, eh?
I mean, even if Wenger was armed with this knowledge about Taylor, even before he went and smashed Eduardo's leg to bits, should he have just laughed the whole thing off after the game and then offered Taylor and his family an all expenses paid trip to fucking Disneyland? Hell, maybe Wenger should have told the lumbering oaf to scrap his Open University and offered him the chance to study for a fucking PhD, with the compliments of Arsenal Football Club!
Now some people would read this and accuse me if taking a cheap shot Taylor and in turn some would also say that I am making the understatement of the year here. But I don't care.
Because, when pundits and so-called experts go around accuse Wenger of making comments that are far more abhorrent and infinitely more reckless than the actions of a man that I say again, smashed a fellow professional's leg to pieces, then I'm sorry but I am not having that.
I know that Arsenal do not have a team of angels. In my article prior to Saturday's game I said that the challenge Eboue for example made a challenge on Evra that was idiotic and that I am sick to the back teeth of the lad. And I am fully aware of the myopic tendencies Wenger has. Let's face it, EVERY Arsenal fan is at least acutely aware of it themselves.
But, in my opinion and contrary to what the Anti-Arsenal brigade would say, none of those things have any relevance whatsoever, particularly in the context of what I am talking about here.
If a bloke of good character with a family and no prior convictions gets in his car one day to drive to the local shops and accidentally runs a talented young man over and smashes his leg to bits as result of being just a fraction over the speed limit or over the alcohol limit and offers up the fact that his reflexes were not quite sharp enough to avoid the collision, does that mean he is no longer responsible for the fact that he is maimed a talented lad and thus potentially ruined his future ambitions in the process? I don't think so.
If, as a consequence all this, the relatives of the stricken lad are left in a state of uproar over this and go on to openly condemn the driver for his actions, then would anybody blame them? Or would you have a situation where people who don't like either the stricken lad or his relatives start coming out of the woodwork to pour scorn on these relatives for condemning the driver because the relatives themselves are not especially squeaky clean? I will leave it up to you, my fellow Gooners to work that out
What I'm really driving at is this. Regardless of the fact that Taylor may be an all round good egg, the fact is he is responsible for the fact that another professional is potentially never going to play football again.
When people in the media, like that gormless twat Matthew Norman in the Evening Standard, say that Arsene Wenger had no right to compound the trauma that Taylor is also apparently going through I think to myself well, quite frankly I think that's bullshit.
After all, in spite of what Wenger may have said immediately after the game on Saturday, Taylor has not exactly been moved enough to take up indefinite residency cowering on some psychiatrist's couch, has he? No, of course not.
Instead, the great bumbling oaf has been in training as per usual every morning and, in three weeks time, the only thing he immediately has to worry about when push comes to shove is whether he is going to be picked once his ban has elapsed.
Taylor may have made the token gesture of going to see Eduardo (twice in fact I'm led to believe) and I guess that he deserves a little credit for that. But when it comes down to it, I'll be damned if I am going to make him out to be the real victim in all of this on the back of some angry, if not slightly misguided words, from Wenger, like sections of the press and the media have. Hell will freeze over before that happens.
In fact, in my mind, the press, the media and the so-called pundits and experts have set a precedent here. If it is the done thing to suggest that Taylor is a victim of circumstance and that Eduardo got injured simply as a result of the kind of tackle that happens every five minutes in a football, then why should I not believe that someone else will not get injured sooner rather than later in a similar manner?
Here is the rub though. If the injured party happens to be someone that the press and the media really care about (i.e. someone who is English and someone who plays primarily for Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Everton or indeed Aston Villa) then they cannot blame me if I as an Arsenal fan take a rather obtuse view of it all. After all, as the old saying goes, if you can't beat them, then join them, right?
As for Eduardo himself well, how gutted am I for this kid? Let's put it this way. After the incident happened, I found it nigh on impossible to focus on the game when it finally carried on and when the game was over, I not only felt angry but also really numb mentally.
The thing that makes his situation all the harder to bear for me personally is the fact that reading into his background, this boy had already been through a lot in his life just to get to where he was even before he got to Arsenal.
And, having got to Arsenal, Eduardo had showed that not only that he has a genuine talent but that he is nothing but a trier who he was prepared to play wide without moaning to help the team when I'm sure that he would no doubt have actually preferred to play more often than not down the middle.
It's a testimony to Eduardo that he has personally forgiven Taylor for the part he played in putting him on the shelf. I don't deny that takes guts and given the nature of the guy, it's easy to say that it is almost typical of the man, given once again his background.
But the fact remains that an initial diagnosis can be wrong and, without second guessing the psyche of the Croatian, I wonder how he will feel if he is told somewhere down the line that he will never play top level football again.
Needless to say I hope that there will never come a day when that happens but when you lose everything you have fought for through no fault of your own, it is not easy to then offer total absolution to the person who was the cause of it all.
I just want to place on record right here and now that I wish Eduardo not only a full recovery but indeed a speedy one. I never actually got to see him score a goal for us live in the flesh so to speak and I hope to see the day when I am there to see him put that record straight. Good luck to you, mate. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
The injury to Arsenal's favourite Brazilian born Croatian may have captured the headlines but of course that wasn't the only topic of controversy that came out Saturday's game. The behaviour of William Gallas also came under scrutiny, didn't it?
A surreal game of football, an emotional game of football was rounded off by some highly irregular behaviour by the man who is supposed to be our captain. I have never seen anything like it to be honest.
As I have said already I was angry and I was numb over what happened over the course of the afternoon but the behaviour Gallas was nothing short of bizarre.
I could understand Gallas kicking the crap out of an advertising hording in frustration. God only knows I could understand that. But to flounce off to the half way line and leave the rest of the team to face the late penalty kick in the way he did and then for him to collapse into a heap in the pit of his own despair as his beleaguered teams mates left the field together, well words failed me.
Credit where it is due, I haven't forgotten the fact that Gallas came up with some vital goals for us this year not least against ManUre and his old club, the PRF. Even so, that is not the kind of behaviour I expect from the captain of my football club, Arsenal Football Club.
I have said all along that the captaincy should have been awarded to Kolo in the ideal world and as much as I appreciate the experience Gallas brings to the table for Arsenal, the fact is he has shown himself up as someone who, like Thierry Henry before him when he was captain, is starting to get too full of his own importance much to the detriment of the rest of the team. That is not good, particularly for a team that doesn't, in my opinion, have too much margin for error anymore when it comes down to winning anything come May.
But of course, the reality now is that our hopes of winning anything this year do not look quite as bright as they did not so long ago. Despite the loss of Eduardo, the actual game at St Andrews reminded me, with hindsight, of what happened in 2003.
It was around this very time in 2003 where the wheels fell off of the Arsenal wagon. At that time we got hit with injuries ad suspensions all over the place. We lost form as a result and whilst we were still trying to make sense of what was going on, we were overtaken in the league and eventually finished up five points adrift of the eventual winners.
I'm trying to stay positive but in the light of what happened to Eduardo and the all too familiar manner in which we threw away two points at St Andrews, my faith is being severely tested I must say. To be honest I can't really be bothered to do any kind of informative build up to the Aston Villa game this Saturday because the reality is that when all is said and done, the Arsenal have two choices neither of which I have any control over.
Either they put themselves out there in spite of what has happened and show the world what they are really made of on Saturday or they don't.
They still have a chance to make the season a very good one. The question is, are Arsenal prepared to take it in spite of all that has happened recently. We will only have clues to that come Saturday night.
At the time when he made his initial statement that Martin Taylor should never play football again after what he did to Eduardo, I thought that he was not so much over the top in what he said but more irrational in his thinking.
And, even though I was fuming myself at what had gone on during and after Eduardo's enforced departure from the game (which, despite initial diagnosis, could still turn out to be permanent) I did think at the time that Wenger's comment was, as he admitted himself later on, excessive. But boy I can understand his anger and I don't give a flying fuck what the Anti-Arsenal brigade think about that.
People attached to Birmingham City have eulogised over Martin Taylor saying that he is a family man with a wife and three kids, that Martin Taylor is a conscious man doing an Open University course in Sports Science and that Martin Taylor is genuinely a decent chap who wouldn't hurt a fly and has a relatively impeccable disciplinary record.
Well, that maks it all fucking alright then, doesn''t it? How shameful it was of Wenger not to take this all into account when this oaf went and smashed Eduardo's leg to bits then, eh?
I mean, even if Wenger was armed with this knowledge about Taylor, even before he went and smashed Eduardo's leg to bits, should he have just laughed the whole thing off after the game and then offered Taylor and his family an all expenses paid trip to fucking Disneyland? Hell, maybe Wenger should have told the lumbering oaf to scrap his Open University and offered him the chance to study for a fucking PhD, with the compliments of Arsenal Football Club!
Now some people would read this and accuse me if taking a cheap shot Taylor and in turn some would also say that I am making the understatement of the year here. But I don't care.
Because, when pundits and so-called experts go around accuse Wenger of making comments that are far more abhorrent and infinitely more reckless than the actions of a man that I say again, smashed a fellow professional's leg to pieces, then I'm sorry but I am not having that.
I know that Arsenal do not have a team of angels. In my article prior to Saturday's game I said that the challenge Eboue for example made a challenge on Evra that was idiotic and that I am sick to the back teeth of the lad. And I am fully aware of the myopic tendencies Wenger has. Let's face it, EVERY Arsenal fan is at least acutely aware of it themselves.
But, in my opinion and contrary to what the Anti-Arsenal brigade would say, none of those things have any relevance whatsoever, particularly in the context of what I am talking about here.
If a bloke of good character with a family and no prior convictions gets in his car one day to drive to the local shops and accidentally runs a talented young man over and smashes his leg to bits as result of being just a fraction over the speed limit or over the alcohol limit and offers up the fact that his reflexes were not quite sharp enough to avoid the collision, does that mean he is no longer responsible for the fact that he is maimed a talented lad and thus potentially ruined his future ambitions in the process? I don't think so.
If, as a consequence all this, the relatives of the stricken lad are left in a state of uproar over this and go on to openly condemn the driver for his actions, then would anybody blame them? Or would you have a situation where people who don't like either the stricken lad or his relatives start coming out of the woodwork to pour scorn on these relatives for condemning the driver because the relatives themselves are not especially squeaky clean? I will leave it up to you, my fellow Gooners to work that out
What I'm really driving at is this. Regardless of the fact that Taylor may be an all round good egg, the fact is he is responsible for the fact that another professional is potentially never going to play football again.
When people in the media, like that gormless twat Matthew Norman in the Evening Standard, say that Arsene Wenger had no right to compound the trauma that Taylor is also apparently going through I think to myself well, quite frankly I think that's bullshit.
After all, in spite of what Wenger may have said immediately after the game on Saturday, Taylor has not exactly been moved enough to take up indefinite residency cowering on some psychiatrist's couch, has he? No, of course not.
Instead, the great bumbling oaf has been in training as per usual every morning and, in three weeks time, the only thing he immediately has to worry about when push comes to shove is whether he is going to be picked once his ban has elapsed.
Taylor may have made the token gesture of going to see Eduardo (twice in fact I'm led to believe) and I guess that he deserves a little credit for that. But when it comes down to it, I'll be damned if I am going to make him out to be the real victim in all of this on the back of some angry, if not slightly misguided words, from Wenger, like sections of the press and the media have. Hell will freeze over before that happens.
In fact, in my mind, the press, the media and the so-called pundits and experts have set a precedent here. If it is the done thing to suggest that Taylor is a victim of circumstance and that Eduardo got injured simply as a result of the kind of tackle that happens every five minutes in a football, then why should I not believe that someone else will not get injured sooner rather than later in a similar manner?
Here is the rub though. If the injured party happens to be someone that the press and the media really care about (i.e. someone who is English and someone who plays primarily for Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Everton or indeed Aston Villa) then they cannot blame me if I as an Arsenal fan take a rather obtuse view of it all. After all, as the old saying goes, if you can't beat them, then join them, right?
As for Eduardo himself well, how gutted am I for this kid? Let's put it this way. After the incident happened, I found it nigh on impossible to focus on the game when it finally carried on and when the game was over, I not only felt angry but also really numb mentally.
The thing that makes his situation all the harder to bear for me personally is the fact that reading into his background, this boy had already been through a lot in his life just to get to where he was even before he got to Arsenal.
And, having got to Arsenal, Eduardo had showed that not only that he has a genuine talent but that he is nothing but a trier who he was prepared to play wide without moaning to help the team when I'm sure that he would no doubt have actually preferred to play more often than not down the middle.
It's a testimony to Eduardo that he has personally forgiven Taylor for the part he played in putting him on the shelf. I don't deny that takes guts and given the nature of the guy, it's easy to say that it is almost typical of the man, given once again his background.
But the fact remains that an initial diagnosis can be wrong and, without second guessing the psyche of the Croatian, I wonder how he will feel if he is told somewhere down the line that he will never play top level football again.
Needless to say I hope that there will never come a day when that happens but when you lose everything you have fought for through no fault of your own, it is not easy to then offer total absolution to the person who was the cause of it all.
I just want to place on record right here and now that I wish Eduardo not only a full recovery but indeed a speedy one. I never actually got to see him score a goal for us live in the flesh so to speak and I hope to see the day when I am there to see him put that record straight. Good luck to you, mate. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
The injury to Arsenal's favourite Brazilian born Croatian may have captured the headlines but of course that wasn't the only topic of controversy that came out Saturday's game. The behaviour of William Gallas also came under scrutiny, didn't it?
A surreal game of football, an emotional game of football was rounded off by some highly irregular behaviour by the man who is supposed to be our captain. I have never seen anything like it to be honest.
As I have said already I was angry and I was numb over what happened over the course of the afternoon but the behaviour Gallas was nothing short of bizarre.
I could understand Gallas kicking the crap out of an advertising hording in frustration. God only knows I could understand that. But to flounce off to the half way line and leave the rest of the team to face the late penalty kick in the way he did and then for him to collapse into a heap in the pit of his own despair as his beleaguered teams mates left the field together, well words failed me.
Credit where it is due, I haven't forgotten the fact that Gallas came up with some vital goals for us this year not least against ManUre and his old club, the PRF. Even so, that is not the kind of behaviour I expect from the captain of my football club, Arsenal Football Club.
I have said all along that the captaincy should have been awarded to Kolo in the ideal world and as much as I appreciate the experience Gallas brings to the table for Arsenal, the fact is he has shown himself up as someone who, like Thierry Henry before him when he was captain, is starting to get too full of his own importance much to the detriment of the rest of the team. That is not good, particularly for a team that doesn't, in my opinion, have too much margin for error anymore when it comes down to winning anything come May.
But of course, the reality now is that our hopes of winning anything this year do not look quite as bright as they did not so long ago. Despite the loss of Eduardo, the actual game at St Andrews reminded me, with hindsight, of what happened in 2003.
It was around this very time in 2003 where the wheels fell off of the Arsenal wagon. At that time we got hit with injuries ad suspensions all over the place. We lost form as a result and whilst we were still trying to make sense of what was going on, we were overtaken in the league and eventually finished up five points adrift of the eventual winners.
I'm trying to stay positive but in the light of what happened to Eduardo and the all too familiar manner in which we threw away two points at St Andrews, my faith is being severely tested I must say. To be honest I can't really be bothered to do any kind of informative build up to the Aston Villa game this Saturday because the reality is that when all is said and done, the Arsenal have two choices neither of which I have any control over.
Either they put themselves out there in spite of what has happened and show the world what they are really made of on Saturday or they don't.
They still have a chance to make the season a very good one. The question is, are Arsenal prepared to take it in spite of all that has happened recently. We will only have clues to that come Saturday night.