pedro update

[hastingsyid]

out of hospital but under medical and neurological consideration for weeks..from all yids get well soon

[SurreySpur]

agreed.

Pedro was a top player for us and seemed like a decent guy on and off the pitch. Whereas Ben Thatcher is a cock, and i cant wait for the Spurs/Man City game. We should give him hell.... the spineless piece of shit!!

All the best Pedro.

[Spur]

Hopefully he isn't playing. If he done that to one of our players I give him less than a week to live, Thatcher that is.

[Billywhizz]

I wonder if he would have done that to someone like Roy Keane

I don't think so somehow.


Get well soon Pedro

[McSpurs]

Always thought Thatcher was a pint sized thug. Him and Taricco at WHL, the thought of it brings back painful memories. I hope the F.A. throw the book at him. Get well soon Pedro.

[Welsh Spur]

Absolutely shocking. It looks worse everytime I see it. How he wasn't sent off is beyond belief. I hope he gets banned for the rest of the season. The referee had a shocker as well, missed a blatant handball right in front of his eyes! He was actually looking at it!

Get well soon Pedro!

[shakey18]

The man is a animal-simple as.I hope he gets shit everywhere from now on.A total prick.

[choda]

I wonder if he would have done that to someone like Roy Keane

I don't think so somehow.


Get well soon Pedro

Yea it's true.

If he did that to Roy and if he ever took to a pitch with him again he'd have been impaled for weeks, and he'd be drinking his food through a straw for months.

He'd have known that and never dared to do it. Thatcher's a coward, he did it to a placid character in Pedro Mendes.

[mjbmedia]

same as roy keane never went in hard on someone whod get him back either , most 'tough guys' only pick on the wimps

[choda]

same as roy keane never went in hard on someone whod get him back either , most 'tough guys' only pick on the wimps

That's not true.

Roy locked horns with Viera, Shearer, Davids etc. and none of them committed any horrible tackles on each other. It is because they are all hard but fair players. Real men. They respected each other.

I think you'll find Roy had runs ins with just about every other hard man he ever played against. But often they just respected each other.

Viera said he'd rather be smacked in the mouth (as he said himself like he might get from Roy Keane) than get a sly dig from Ruud.

And Keane wasn't cowardly when Viera was towering over Gary Neville in the tunnel was he? He wasn't shy in squaring up to the other hard man come what may.

I take your point that they are less likely to whack a fellow hard man but that doesn't make them any less hard, that's just natural behaviour, it is common sense.

It's like in the animal kingdom when two big gorillas go head to head for supremecy they are both wary of getting killed or seriously injured, and so avoid physical conflict if at all possible.

[Gregzy]

All the best Pedro - it shames me that Thatcher once wore our shirt.

Interesting points made here, but let's try to keep this thread simple and united in wishing Pedro all the best for a speedy recovery.

[JJ]

Competitive football is generally about stamping your authority physically. Anytime you play you're usually told to give your marker a bit of a knock early on. Makes them think twice about going for 50/50 balls with you.

Either that or they try to **** you up...

Players like Keane and Davids are very physical but they have no problems with getting crunched themselves and as choda said they usually respect each other for it.

Thatcher on the other hand went out to hurt Mendes, and nothing else.

[Thfc4Life]

I seem to remember a few years back Roy Keane making a much worse 'tackle' on Alf Inge Haaland which subsequently ended his career, was that not a brutal and cowardly act?!

[JJ]

I seem to remember a few years back Roy Keane making a much worse 'tackle' on Alf Inge Haaland which subsequently ended his career, was that not a brutal and cowardly act?!

It was just as brutal and cowardly. It was a direct attack on a player, but Thatcher seems to have a long history of similar incidents. Roy Keane has always tackled hard, but generally it is in an attempt to play the ball.

[hastingsyid]

I seem to remember a few years back Roy Keane making a much worse 'tackle' on Alf Inge Haaland which subsequently ended his career, was that not a brutal and cowardly act?!
yeah i remember that,that was one of the worst ive seen,but to be fair if i did what thatcher did anywhere id be nicked and done for assault

[choda]

I seem to remember a few years back Roy Keane making a much worse 'tackle' on Alf Inge Haaland which subsequently ended his career, was that not a brutal and cowardly act?!

As JJ said Keane was a hard ****er but a fair player apart from one or two incidents.

Haalend whacked him, and stood over him and repeatedly shouted in his face that he was a cheat, even though Keane was in absolute agony having done his cruciate. Anybody who knows Keane knows he's never cheated in his whole career.

Keane went out to whack him no doubt, I'd have done the same thing myself, **** him. He wasn't trying to end his career no more than Haalend was trying to do his cruciate when he whacked him.

Punishments should be handed out for bad tackles, sometimes severe punishment, and then just get on with it, man's game.

If you remember too Haaland tried to bring it to court and claim damages against Roy but it was thrown out of court. Why? Because the injury that finished his career was on his other leg. Keane's tackle didn't finish his career at all.