Ben Thatcher
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Wilka
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The video panel better give him a very long ban for that! 
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- Dec 6, 2004
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Him and Michael Brown should be kicked out of the game.
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Les Biehn said:
Couldnt have said it better.. How Pearce can suggest it was simply a 'mistimed challenge' i dont know.. People like him are an nasty stain on the game..
Barrel of Fun
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Absolutely dispicable. There was not simply mistimed, but a tackle with intent.
The law must be changed if nothing can be done about this, due to the booking.
I was quite shocked the Pompey player then ran up to Mendes and moved his neck.
Ps Had Pearce seen the replay of it? He is normally very straight talking and honest. I got the feeling he hadn't seen all of the challenge.
The law must be changed if nothing can be done about this, due to the booking.
I was quite shocked the Pompey player then ran up to Mendes and moved his neck.
Ps Had Pearce seen the replay of it? He is normally very straight talking and honest. I got the feeling he hadn't seen all of the challenge.
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Disgraceful. Pearce hadn't seen a replay when he made those comments about it being a mistime challenge.
Didn't Thatcher break Summerbee's jaw in an another elbow flailing incident? And elbow a Japanese (?) player in pre season causing his lung to collapse?
Didn't Thatcher break Summerbee's jaw in an another elbow flailing incident? And elbow a Japanese (?) player in pre season causing his lung to collapse?
Did it while at the Dons - ruined his chance of a call up at the time
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Les Biehn said:
I would have thought it will be on youtube someday soon. Either that or record an hour of Shysports news. They are bound to show it at some stage.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I wouldn't even give him the credit of calling it a tackle.BarrelofFun said:
It was nothing less than an all-out full speed assault. The ball was a complete irrelevence, he just steamed straight into Mendes with the simple intention of laying him out. I think Mendes was already out cold before he hit the deck.
The FA should ban Thatcher for 10 games. But I suppose as Gallagher gave him a yellow (f***ing joke), they'll say the incident has already been "dealt with" and they can't do any more.
Kent Seagull
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That wasn't a tackle, it was a deliberate assault on a fellow professional. Just because it happened on a football pitch doesn't make it any less of a crime. Incidents of that nature should be treated as a criminal offence and dealt with by the courts. Discraceful behqaviour
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Kent Seagull said:
Totally agree. Players like Thatcher think they have Carte Blanche to get away with shit like that because the only rules that apply are those of a red and yellow card. He should be hauled up for that shit, I seriously think he could have killed Mendes.
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REDLAND
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Why isn't it on YouTube, I missed it last night 
REDLAND said:Why isn't it on YouTube, I missed it last night
It is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTRaS7ffyWg
Gordon the Gopher
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Kent Seagull said:
I'm no legal expert but I think the old bill should prosecute him for ABH or GBH. It was a physical assault at the end of the day, pure and simple!
Will also be interesting to see if the PFA get involved although i won't hold my breath on that one.
Fourteenth Eye
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REDLAND said:Why isn't it on YouTube, I missed it last night
It will be by the end of the day im sure.
It looks as though he will get away with it however as he was booked on the night it is deemed that the ref has seen the incident and the FA have no further power.
However im sure that once Stuart Pearce sees it he will take his own action as that is the sort of guy that he is
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REDLAND
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Starry said:
Cheers,
can't see to much wrong with it myself
Man of Harveys
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That's quite an apt typo - from what I saw, the entirely gutless one was already coming out with "well, it was a fast game, these things can happen" bullshit on the news this morning. I can't stand that moronic twat, never could. He's too f***ing thick to digest the fact that one of this players tried to kill someone.Fourteenth Eye said: