Shifty the monkey said:
First of all, I take it your not from England?
Rugby players
do not wear helmets, some players in the scrub wear soft padding, your confusing it with American Football. Anyway in a rugby season you'd see about 5 punches thrown, or some heads being stamped on and you get nowhere as big as fuss as this incident seems to have.
Now, what are you on about Sunday league have different rules? Footballs football, you think Sunday League players are allowed to basically fight each and get away with it? If you don't understand well sunday league is basically amateur football.
Yes it was a bad challenge, and a 5 match ban would be fine. But you lot all need to calm down, the mans apologuised and even written a letter to Pedro. Pedro is fine. But the way most people in this thread have reacted, you'd have thought he facken killed the bloke. Also most of the "over reacters" happen to be Man United fans, taking this incident as an excuse to 'ave a go at City fans, the Ronaldo comment was meant to suggest how fickle United fans are
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No i'm not from england and i'm not confusing anything. I know that rugby players don't wear the same time of helmets as american football players do, but they still wear head protection and anything that protects a head is a helmet, at least it is in my books. Not all of them wear it, but a lot of players do wear those soft helmets, that still helps A LOT when getting elbowed or hit in the head.
And because Sunday League IS amateur football, it's totally different. People get away with stuff that they are not allowed to do.
So because Ben apologised and wrote a letter it's ok, we can all forget him? How would you feel if someone smashed you with an elbow into your jaw and then wrote a letter of apology? I bet you would become friends with that guy, wouldn't you?
How do you know that Mendes is fine? Did he tell you that personally or you saw him say that or you saw him back in training or what makes you think that he is 100% OK? These kind of things can easily cause late concussions, which can force people from playing the game. And again if you didn't understand me right, why the elbow was so bad, is because you can EASILY kill a man like that. Hit a little higher and his career is done.
Also, why most of the people complaining are United fans? Probably because 1. Ben Thatcher is a City player, 2. United just had a player unfairly red carded and banned for 3 games for something that deserves a yellow at most, and now we get this incident, which is way worse and the player escapes with a yellow.
Don't get me wrong, maybe and hopefully the FA will act and punish Thatcher accordingly by banning him for at least 9 games, by for now United fans have every right to complain, because our team always gets special treatment. And trust me, if this was a United player doing it, rony and rhimzone would have created MUCH more fuss, just between the two of them, then all United fans did here.
Again, just forget all the questions i wrote and tell me if you think that this elbow could have never caused anything serious to Mendes and that you think that this kind of thing is bad, but acceptable?