After Arsene Wenger, John Toshack and Thomas Vermaelen, Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky added his point of view on the horrible injury suffered by team-mate Aaron Ramsey. Speaking to Sky Sports, the Czech International started by saying that it is foolish to blame Ryan Shawcross, adding however how players should be more protected on the pitch.

Rosicky, 29, has a long history of injuries and said how himself, together with Croatian International Eduardo, can be taken as an example by young Ramsey who should have a much quicker recovery considering his young age, 19.

Rosicky said:

I think you cannot blame the player (Shawcross) or to tell that he wanted to break his leg, of course not. But it’s always against us. The teams operate aggressively against us, that’s no problem for us, I think everybody copes with that but I think we have to be more protected from the referees. Because if you see, for example, how many fouls the opponents can do against us, five, six and after that it’s a yellow card, we are making one or two fouls and we’ve got immediately yellow cards.

So we have to be more protected as well. (I) just have to wish him a speedy recovery because he’s a great talent and such a young age. Of course, it’s not easy.

I think he can see that, he’s two team-mates like Eduardo and me, we were out for a long time as well. So he can see that there are two examples that made it as well, so he’s got it in front of his eyes.

I’m sure that he will be back because he is obviously even younger than us, so the healing hopefully will be quicker for him.