Taylor: Eduardo decision was right

09 September 2009 09:11
Taylor's successor Gordon Smith at the SFA led the calls for UEFA to ban Eduardo after his dive in the Champions League qualifier against Celtic and the striker was subsequently given a two-match ban by European football's governing body. Arsenal are appealing, though, and Wenger claimed there had been "a witch-hunt" with the case being influenced by "Scottish people working at UEFA". Taylor, however, claimed that was not the case, saying: "It's not all pals together, we're in football and you disagree with people." It is understood Taylor would have preferred Smith not have got involved as UEFA were already looking at the incident in which Eduardo went down under a challenge from Celtic keeper Artur Boruc to win a penalty. The UEFA general secretary met Wenger last week at a coaches' forum in Switzerland and tried to explain the reasoning behind the decision. Taylor told Bloomberg: "There's a clear difference of opinion. We believe this was something that infringed the regulations and there was an obvious intent to deceive the referee." He also denied claims that this would set a dangerous precedent with UEFA now needing to take action on dozens of matches. He added: "That won't be the case. There has to be significant detriment to the opposing team. We are not talking throw-ins, corners kicks, things happening elsewhere on the pitch. "We're talking about things like the sending-off of players, or penalties which are scored where the other team suffers significant disadvantage."

Source: Team_Talk