{"id":336376,"date":"2011-03-24T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/arsenal-defender-bacary-sagna-calls-for-action-against-dangerous-tackles\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:56:00","slug":"arsenal-defender-bacary-sagna-calls-for-action-against-dangerous-tackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/arsenal-defender-bacary-sagna-calls-for-action-against-dangerous-tackles\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna calls for action against dangerous tackles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Jamie Dunn<\/h3>\n<h4>24 Mar 2011 20:56:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"76.0907035176\">\n<div readability=\"15.3214285714\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bacary Sagna - Arsenal, (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c8acfa08112957_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bacary Sagna &#8211; Arsenal, (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"47.4991762768\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/94\/arsenal\">Arsenal<\/a> defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/france\/5913\/bacary-sagna\">Bacary Sagna<\/a> has called for football&#8217;s governing bodies to take stronger action to outlaw dangerous challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Sagna has seen Gunners team-mates Aaron Ramsey and Eduardo &#8211; now with Shakhtar Donetsk &#8211; suffer broken legs at the hands of heavy tackles.<\/p>\n<p>And the France international was further angered by a challenge on Samir Nasri by Paul Scholes in the FA Cup defeat to Manchester United recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had two broken legs,&#8221; Sagna told the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. &#8220;We went to Manchester and Samir Nasri got his leg ripped off again. There&#8217;s nothing done to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They always wait until there is a major incident to make a decision, and then it&#8217;s too late.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;He Nasri almost had his leg cut off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he breaks his leg what shall we say? It&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is you can&#8217;t have a discussion with them match officials, you can&#8217;t have a debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Far from blaming Arsenal&#8217;s injury crisis for their elimination from three major competitions, Sagna conceded his side were beaten by deserved winners Birmingham City in the League Cup final, as they &#8216;soiled&#8217; themselves on the big occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you make all those efforts, you reach the League Cup final, which is at Wembley, and then we soil ourselves, that&#8217;s not normal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were beaten in every domain, they won the most tackles, and honestly Birmingham deserved it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Sagna believes Arsenal can still bring silverware to the Emirates Stadium this season as they sit five points behind Manchester United in the title race, but with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know we can do it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To answer the critics, you have to win trophies. For the moment we have not done this. So we can&#8217;t answer back.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c8acfa08112957_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/24\/2409900\/arsenal-defender-bacary-sagna-calls-for-action-against-dangerous-\" title=\"Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna calls for action against dangerous tackles\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna calls for action against dangerous tackles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jamie Dunn 24 Mar 2011 20:56:00 Bacary Sagna &#8211; Arsenal, (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna has called for football&#8217;s governing bodies to take stronger action to outlaw dangerous challenges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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