Ben Thathcer should be banned from all future football after what he did today.
From the sounds of the instance Ben Thatcher has dived into Pedro Mendes with his elbow aimed at Mendes and hit him in the neck sendng the Pompey midfielder flying into the crowd.
Mendes has had to be stretchered off the pitch and had to be given oxygen. He was still unconcious as he was taken away. He could have a broken neck.
This could have ended Mendes career and Thatcher is still on the pitch and Gary O'Neil has been yellow carded.
If nothing happens to Thatcher after this then it will be one of the biggest farces in football history.
Great news has just come through on the radio however that Mendes hasn't suffered a broken neck but was just winded and knocked unconcious.
Well I think that Man City have given him a ban and the police are looking at this and another incident involving Thatcher and will make thier reports to the Crown Porsecution Service ( they decide if a case goes to court). Thatcher may well be in trouble because judges and lawyers will look at a test case and the only avialable one is Duncan Ferguson who got locked up, the only advanatge for Thatcher is that unlike big Dunc he wont be going to Barlinnie prison if he is charged.
Mendes Man City woes have just continued this weekend as, after scoring another long range goal against City and dominating the mid-field battle, Joey Barton viciously stamped on Mendes leg and cut Pedro's achilles.
Only Barton knows if he meant to do it or not but it seems pretty deliberate on the replays I have seen.
This could have ended Mendes career and Thatcher is still on the pitch and Gary O'Neil has been yellow carded.
08-23-2006 09:00 PM
