Whilst playing for Spartak Moscow, Emanuel Pogatetz was banned for 6 months following a leg breaking tackle. The player known as “Mad Dog”, for reasons which have become all too clear this evening, saw his ban reduced to just 2 months on appeal.
In United’s match against Middlesbrough in the Carling Cup this evening, Pogatetz, aged 25-years-old, may have broken the second player’s leg of his career.
With just over an hour played, Rodrigo Possebon was chasing down a ball in the opposition’s half. It was always going to be a 50/50 challenge and as Possebon slid in on the ground, the Boro captain, lifted his feet with his studs clattering in to our young player just below the knee.
Replays showed intent, with the Boro defender certainly not needing to lift his foot so high when the ball was on the ground.
Possebon appeared to have a hole in his leg just below his knee and raised his arm in agony before he even hit the deck. White as a ghost, he was finally taken off the field with his leg protected and the gas brought out for the pain.
Pogatetz had the nerve to act surprised as his team mates crowded around the referee. None of them were booked though. I guess we’re not respecting the referee today.
Nothing has been confirmed as yet, and whilst we can remain hopeful, the chances of him avoiding a leg break has slim to none here.
For pictures of the challenge click here and here.
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Dreadfull tackle that should varrant more than a 3 match ban. That wount happend tho, with the spineless FA in charge.Now if it had been the other way around Possebon would have gotten at least 7 months!
real pity what happened to possebon, he was doing so well up till then. I’ve been mightily impressed with him and he is calmness personified, hopefully ando can give him some encouragement, support and advice on how to recover from a broken leg. Get well soon Rodrigo
INTENT!!! yeah right oh, feel for the lad but he’s been unlucky thats all.
Pog played the ball and the lad was unlucky to get in the way of the follow through, no intent whatsoever, Paul Scholes makes far worse tackles every week and gets away with it.
BUBS: CLICK THIS
Unlucky? He’s a fucking thug. Throw the book at him.
Can’t get over it really. That was awful. He is 19 years old jesus… hope he recovers sooner than it seems to be. Full support Rodrigo!
Bubs – you cant be serious.. you look at the pic?
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please tell me how THAT is not INTENT. don’t be an idiot man
Fuckin sick tackle… he should be banned for as long as Rodrigo is out of the game.. that is a fair punishment… looked like a compound fracture to me…..
Sick twat… tell ya … let me on a 50/50 tackle with him and see who goes 3 foot up in the air then…..
Ive been watching Posebon since he signed… and he is composed.. good passer, elegant… really really great.. not good.. but great potential and that aint being a biased red.. then you get a sunday league thug aka Pogatez who fuckin wallops him…
Im livid… really livid.
Envy.
dry your eyes! if he wasn’t a united player no-one would bat an eyelid
Watch the real time footage of it and tell me there is intent.
Scholes commits worse tackles every week.
Bubs – I’ve never seen Scholes go for someone’s knee before, and I watch a hell of lot more of him than you do. How can you argue there’s no intent when his studs are out at knee height? The ball wasn’t there, it was rolling along the ground.
Chrisnz – Players who get the leg broken tend to get a lot of attention, don’t you think?
It’s appalling to see your fans so ready to defend such thuggery. Scum. Your captain is 25 and has broken two players legs. Shameful. Ban cunts like him from the game before he does anymore damage.
Bubs…You talk shit pal
Scholes may not be the best in the tackling dept..I doubt he would say he is himself but the “tackle” if you wanna call it that (I would call it assult) was nothing less than disgraceful.
Don’t know yet if its as serious as some are saying but that type of injury can fuck a career up even if you get back to fitness (Smudger).
Hope Pog gets what he deserves and that more importantly Rod gets back soon and hopefully with two legs!
is there any word on him?
Before MU fans go crazy, all I can say is remember Roy Keane 10 times worse
Phil – if you’re talking about the Haaland incident, he was playing 4 days after Keane’s ‘challenge’. That doesn’t excuse what Keane did, but it doesn’t make him worse than Pogatetz, who probably has 2 leg breaks to his name now.
And who cares about Roy right now? The fact that someone committed murder ten years ago does not give you the right to kill someone.
I really would ban players who make these tackles well it wasnt even a tackle it was a fuckin assault…
For the length a player is gonna be out until he resumes full training… if its 12 months then ya banned for 12 months… no appeals etc…
Id fuckin av the thug charged…
Middlesborough fans av always fancied themselves.. north eastern muppets…
The said they was comin to take over OT a good few seasons back… and lot of em got a good hidin then… it seems that the Boro players are as thick, dumb, and just basically into thuggary.
I hate boro they aint even a premier league team… average championship team… the manage is a fuckin clutz…can advertise pizza’s but thats about it… fuckin winds me up watching him in the dug out with his rubber face gestures… i just hope he doesnt try n protest pogatwats innocence.
I just hope it isnt a compound fracture.. but ive watched it a good few times now in slow mo… and first thought it was a stud that had gone into him… but you see his leg buckle… and that suggests a compound… and we had really high hopes of him this season…
Fuckin pisses me off… how the fuck he can have a pro licence to play i will never know.. ban the twat… fuck it.. ban boro.. there shite anyway
both feet off the ground……fucking web toed cunt.
10 match ban.wish keano was still about.
10 months ban mate… not a 10 match
in fact id kick twats like that out of the game
Bubs your a CUNT plain and simple!
Any Boro fan defending this, should be SHOT, and yes i mean every word of that, and if you don’t get SHOT, i hope something happens to you that makes you feel the pain he was feeling just for 5minutes. Stupid scums!
@Chrisnz…i assume Eduardo was a Man utd player right???
If it was Keano I would have said ban the hell out of him. I don’t care if its Keano, Cantona or fucking Pogatetz – tackles which break legs (or show intent and miss even) should result in a massive ban, period. I breathe United, but Keano has disgusted me many times with his tackling and no sane United fan can condone it – Scott the Red, the Haaland incident merited a massive ban, regardless of the minimal damage. Its disgusting tackles like this, and if the FA can’t create a precedent here than it can go drown itself in its own piss. It’s beyond club loyalties, it about the careers of talented individuals no matter where they play.
This one tackle has made today’s result meaningless. For the record, even as a united fan, Eduardo’s injury almost made my cry.
Mahesh – read the article. At no point did I argue Keane didn’t deserve to be punished. I was simply refuting the point that Keane vs Haaland was 10 times worse than Pogatetz vs Possebon.
Scott the Red – I wasn’t saying you were condoning Keane’s tackle. I apologize if it came out that way. My point was generally that beyond a point it doesn’t matter if a tackle is 10 times worse or not – it just wrong to quantify how bad a tackle is beyond a point. My point is just that we shouldn’t even be talking about bad tackles being 2, 3 or 10 times worse than another intentionally malicious tackle. To that extent, my comment was aimed more at the person you were responding to then to your comment.
The FA is a fucking joke,this murderer needs to be banned at least 3 months,not fucking three matches.
Possebon was by far, the best player on the ground and this pogat(cunt)etz will get away with it.
fucking thug.
I’d rather see us lose 0_10 than seeing Possebon gets this horriable injury.
Arsenal fan in peace…
Hope the lads alrite! i just suffered a leg break myself!
Players like this need to be banned for longer … same thing with Eduardo but the player will just get the 3 match ban and be playing again in no time…
They should be banned for at least the same time as the player is injured!
football is physical but tackles like this are just reckless and have no place in the beautiful game!
Hi!
Not an MU fan but just to wish the boy speedy recovery an all the best.
Somebody uploaded a video so you guys can judge the tackle yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97ftraVQTc
Although a lot of ppl argued that Pogatetz got to the ball 1st, it’s the nature of the tackle which got him the red card. I remember a similar tackle made by Hamann (on Bernt Haas?) for Livpool years bfore which got him sent off even though the victim managed to see the tackle and jump out of the way with minimal contact (Hamann got the ball as well).
I cant believe some people are trying to justify that… you’re showing yourselves up as total idiots… “Scholes does worse every week” really? When was the last time he broke someones leg then? “Keane did worse every week” aside from the Haaland tackle (which was disgusting in its own right and which he was rightly punished for) show me them will you, did he regularly break legs? “You only hear about it coz its a United player” really? What about the Gutherie incident a few weeks ago then? And the Eduardo tackle last year? Grow up…. Pogatez knew exactly what he was doing and whats worse is the reaction of the boro bench which shows them up for what they are, a small time club. Tough luck lads, thats any chance of a cup run over for another year… oh well there’s always 09/10 isnt there..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50FKYUW0Cs
possebon
Week in week out you hear the same shit from people who should know better. A bad tackle can threaten the career of a young promising footballer and people justify by saying “He got the ball first”. I saw the video – it is similar to what the thug Kevin Davies did to Gael Clichy last Saturday. And then the f***ing morons on MOTD say “It wasnt even a yellow card”. You think they would have learned something from the Eduardo incident – but no – once an idiot always an idiot.
I am sure you will be seeing similar sentiment from a lot of folks. Wish the lad a speedy recovery.
I think there is a difference between eduardo and possebon.
Im a die hard utd fan. But i have to say there is a difference.
1. Eduardos injury was worse HOWEVER..EVEN THOUGH VERY VERY BAD. Tiny tim taylor isnt a dirty player and never has been. He’s clumsy and big. Eduardo did him for skill and the challenge was a mistimed one that epitomised someone who was too slow and too sluggish. NOT malicious though…not meant and he isnt a player like that. Wenger weeks after admitted that.
2. Possebons injury maybe not be as bad HOWEVER POGATETZ is a malicious thug dirty player..he does have a history of this and being downright reckless and dangerous. He meant to do what he did.
Thats the difference
You’d never have seen Roy Keane doing anything like that.
The point you miss Suhayl completely is that bad tackles are being condoned by people who should know better. Maybe tiny taylor is the holiest man in the whole f***ing England .. but he still went in for the challenge with his studs up doing the damage he did. The excuse then was.. it was the skill and speed of Eduardo that did him. What rubbish !! It was the clumsy challenge and the intent to get stuck in, even if not malicious.
Anyways, we digress. The point here is that if people know that if they go in for a challenge and are not punished, they will only feel more encouraged. Universal condemnation, not condoning is needed.
Possebon is a victim of that mentality. Glad he is back on his feet with minimal damage.