http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6751-2326640,00.html
I can't see why Mendes or Pompey shouldn't be pressing charges. I mean, shit, that wasn't a foul, that was GBH.
― darren (darren), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I've yet to see the video (anyone got a link?) but apparently Mendes was having seizures in the ambulance? If it's as bad as I've heard, Thatcher should get a hefty ban.
He's an appalling defender as well as an aggressive shit.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
A Fifa spokesman confirmed to BBC sport: "It is one of the fundamental rules of the game that the referee's decision is final.
"Therefore, if it is his decision that an offence warrants a yellow card, that cannot be changed later by somebody else."
RULES IN BEING BLINKERINGLY STUPID SHOCKA
― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― rtccc (mwah), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Whether they do or they don't, there is still every chance of that turd being charged with assault, and I hope he goes down for it and is banned from footy for life.
― darren (darren), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― darren (darren), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
how is it? Thatcher clearly meant harm.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never seen a player so comprehensively wiped out before in my 8 years of watching MOTD every Saturday evening. I've certainly never seen such violence before except in the odd Youtube clip.
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
provoked and different circumstances resulting in different treatment and reactions of course, but a recent example of 'such violence' nonetheless
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Poor Pedro. He's a very good player but only ever makes the headlines for the wrong reasons.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Konal, are you crazy? The Zidane moment was shocking, yes, but it wasn't dangerous play. A head to the chest does not begin to compare to Thatcher PUNCHING an opponent IN THE FACE at full-pelt into the advertising hoardings.
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
before i saw the clip, I was fearing this was going to be a Dave Busst style thing. I can't remember who made that challenge and what punishment they got, whether it was seen as not malicious intent but just too late and hard. because of that i'm just sort of relieved it was 'only' a punch-barge combo!
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Probably the best "I am going to cripple you" moment on the field ever.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
David Busst was a Roy Keane-Gary Neville WWE combo. Delightful stuff.
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Last Season: Pedro Mendes 93rd minute goal at Fratton Park against Manchester City
Local Radio Commo by Sam Matterface goes into overdrive when Mendes scored that goalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG46aUfFFTQ
Start of match Pompey 9 points adrift [due to losing at Aston Villa by a single goal the previous week], on 90 minutes Pompey were set to be 8 Points a drift, however that goal meant Pompey were only 6 points a drift of West Brom.
The great escape started with that Mendes goal, the fans, the players, the manager all had hope after that goal went in.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
I like Pearce's defence, in which he wanted everyone to know that Thatcher asked after Mendes' health afterwards.
That's good enough for me.
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/nba/2005/0913/photo/tomjonavich_washington_195.jpg
― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
"Good evening. The game you are about to see is the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game."
― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete W (peterw), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.kenaston.org/KenAston/KenAston50_files/image006.jpg
http://www.kenaston.org/KenAston/KenAston50_files/image008.jpg
― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know either.
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― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 28 August 2006 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 28 August 2006 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Thursday, 7 September 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
No one on this thread has mentioned Paul Davis punching Glen Cockerill (sp?) in an Arsenal v Southampton game in the late 80s. It was an off the ball incident - he just walked up behind him, tapped him on the back, and then as he turned round cracked him right in the face and broke his jaw. The ref didn't see anything at all. There was a load of controversy at the time because ITV showed the incident, so Davis ended up getting a 10-game ban I think, but contractually ITV were only allowed to show the goals in their highlights packages, not random violence.
― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 7 September 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link
This isn't even the beginning of the end, more like the late-middle.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Ben Thatcher, though by no means great, is surely better than Djimi Traore.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, let me tell you this. We've got problems. Having to choose between Public Enemy #1 and Risible Buffoon #1 at left-back is A BIG FUCKING PROBLEM, OK?
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Charlton do have a problem, but it is not their right back (and actually, having to choose between two mediocre right backs is NOT THAT BIG A PROBLEM IN ANY SANE SCHEME OF THINGS OK?) it's the fact that their Board of Directors, long admired for their sannity and stability, seem to have gone a bit mental.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I remember when Exeter drew against Everton! Ah, FA Cup memories. I seem to remember you playing a different goalkeeper in either half and both performing heroics (the first one subbed because he'd practically broken his skull).
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
BT's tackle on Pedro was unforgivably bad, but I rather like him as a player and think he might end up bebing rather useful for Charlton.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Johansson scored with two overhead kicks, didn't he? Santos' was a looping header, I remember that, but I also remember we should have scored more than three. I didn't know Uri Geller was there.
BT might be quite useful if and only if he shakes the monkey from his back. He will be booed at every single ground he plays at, though.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Having a player who's targeted by the booists = not always a bad thing. As long as the booists are not yr own fans.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't have much sympathy with them*, mind: another case of a non-league tinpot Abramovich without the finance to back up his grand ambitions, as far as I can tell.
*Aside from the faithful thousand or so who had no control over the Chairman's foolishness and most likely saw this coming.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I think hearing Charlton fans booing their own team is the thing which has made me less sympathetic towards them (as a non-aligned SE London resident I've always felt fairly positively about CAFC).
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm against the booing of our own players and I've never done it myself, so I agree with you that it's very sad. We never used to be like this. Seems that the crowd are growing impatient, and taking Premiership status for granted, which is of course when relegation is most likely to strike.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Anthony Garder - 5/3Gary Doherty - 3/1Maurizio Tarrico - 10/1Ramon Vega - 30/1Ledley King - 500/1
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
We were gonna sign Gardner at the start of the 05-06 season, but that petered out rather badly. I maintain that Luke Young >>> Pascal Chimbonda, however.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Boyler (The Boyler), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not sure he was ever a footballer. Mind, he's the player I most modelled my own game on.
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Though you and Ptee are of course right.
― The Boyler (The Boyler), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
and apparently M'boro's second was just astonishingly rubbish Charlton 'defending'.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Saturday, 24 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
List of 'that type of player'
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 March 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link
feel ttops have been driven underground. they can't openly declare themselves as ttops like your vinnie joneses or whatever did. sort of like racists.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:10 (seven years ago) link
Ireland were giving as good as they got, according to Chris Coleman, so that's alright then. You know what we British are like when we play each other.
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link