Birmingham defender wants Edu back

Birmingham defender Martin Taylor has spoken about his horror challenge on Arsenal striker Eduardo for the first time. Taylor confessed that nothing would please him more than to see Eduardo return back to action and playing the way he was before.

"I will be really happy on the day when I see he is back in the Arsenal and Croatia line-up and when he is scoring goals again," Taylor told The Independent.

"The injury was terrible enough. When he gets back to fitness and he puts the ball in the net for Arsenal for the first time, we will all feel much better. People will be able to see that accidents like these are the nature of football and you can recover from it.

"I went to see him on Saturday but, unfortunately, he was still recovering from an operation, so first thing on Sunday morning I went to the hospital and he was really good to see me."