Blatter anticipates new regulations will allow the world governing to review decisions such as the Football Association's mandatory three-match ban for Birmingham defender Taylor, with a view to imposing their own more substantial punishments.

Taylor's challenge on Arsenal striker Eduardo - in a Barclays Premier League match last month - came in for especially outspoken criticism from Blatter, who added FIFA will ask the FA for its report on this specific incident so that they can consider whether further action can or should be taken.

"It is shocking when you see how this player was attacked. It is not football," he told Sky Sports News.

"Football is a contact game, but it is a game with rules.

"You have to have respect - and what we witnessed there has nothing to do with football.

"This is to destroy another player, and that is not the aim of our game."

Blatter clearly believes more stringent penalties are required for certain instances of foul play.

The FIFA president insisted: "Such players should not only be suspended for a certain time - they should be banned until they have realised they have done something absolutely wrong.

"How can you imagine in any other profession - that a dentist would try to demolish a dentist, or a painter a painter? Please, this is an appeal to everybody to stop this."

Blatter's remarks are unlikely to find widespread favour in English football, judging by the reactions to his earlier remarks that players who "intentionally" commit dangerous tackles should be "banned from the game".

Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate and his Wigan counterpart Steve Bruce - both former defenders who played in the Premier League - fear Blatter's proposals would be difficult to implement.

Southgate said: "It's very difficult to ban people for life for one challenge.

"There will always be misjudgements. There will always be people that lose their temper on the field of play and make challenges they will later regret.

"Supporters want to see the best talent able to express itself. But we also have to be careful we don't go overboard on things.

"It's a thin dividing line because there has to be a physical aspect to the game.

"That's what makes it the game it is. A lot of the excitement comes from some of the tackles and that's an art form in itself."

Bruce added: ``I don't know where you would start with that, what's a bad tackle and what's not?

"But we all want to see the nasty, over-the-top challenges that are in the professional game eradicated - the ones that hurt people.

"But to ban them for life? I think that could be very difficult."

Ryan Giggs has also poured cold water on Blatter's suggestion.

Manchester United's veteran winger said: "How would you govern that? It is hard to say in many cases if a player has gone out to injure someone.

"You do not want football to be a non-contact sport. Tackles are part of the game. Equally you want them to be fair.

"You would need to bring ex-players onto a panel and be the judges as they would know."

Eduardo's injury is expected to keep him out of football until the end of the year - but his fellow Arsenal forward Emmanuel Adebayor is prepared to accept that Taylor had no intention of inflicting such a serious injury.

"We have to forgive him," he said.

"Whatever happened, I cannot believe he had it in his mind to turn the ankle of another player.

"He did not do it on purpose," Adebayor told Sky Sports News.

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Birmingham co-owner David Gold made it clear tonight he has little regard for Blatter's remarks.

"This is a domestic issue which should be left in the hands of the Premier League and the Football Association," he told Sky Sports News.

"It is extremely over the top, and I am disappointed in his involvement.

"Not only will Martin Taylor have a three-match ban, this is something he will carry with him for the rest of his life in football.

"I think he [Blatter] is out of order. He is saying that the Premier League and the Football Association are incapable of dealing with their own issues."