Manchester United’s victory over Middlesbrough in the 3rd Round of the Carling Cup was overshadowed by the horrendous ‘challenge’ on United youngster, Rodrigo Possebon.
Following the clattering tackle, Pogatetz looked bewildered by the referee’s decision to show him a straight red card.
The Boro captain has claimed it was unintentional, despite catching our player just below the knee, and plans to ring up Rodrigo to apologise. However, this isn’t the first time.
When playing for Spartak Moscow, he broke the leg of his opponent and was handed a six month ban. However, following a trip to hospital to visit his victim, his ban was shortened to two months.
He has spoken out today, talking of his regret, no doubt hoping that he will receive just a three match ban.
“Firstly, I have to say that I went for the tackle because I thought I could win the ball,” said the thug. “I now accept, however, that I misjudged the challenge. Immediately after the incident, I did not think it was a red-card offence because I did win the ball. But now that I have had the chance to see the tackle on TV, I know the ref was right to send me off. I am going to speak to Rodrigo by telephone and I will apologise for hurting him. I hope that he will make a quick recovery and that he will not be out for long.”
I couldn’t see the match but was wondering how the partnership of Ando and Rodrigo worked? Any comments or observations?
not accepted,you fucking thug.
Public apology via your clubs website… fucking shitbag.
Why doesnt he do this on tv… or even better go and see Rodrigo… never mind fuckin telephonin him…. shithouse.
The only reason why he is apologising now.. is so he doesnt get any extra charges from the streaks of piss at the FA
I would ban him for the rest of the season…
There is nothing wrong with going in 110% on a tackle… but to do it just under the knee aint right… in fact its sick… and the twat knows better…
Some fuckin captain.. good example to set.. to all the young boro fans… im sure your an aspiring figure to look upto by the little kids of middlesborough (not).
People like Pogatez need putting down… coz they aint no use to anyone.. no use to football… nothing… just blatant waste of space..
I was livid last nite… and im still livid now………… people think “oh it can blow over now coz he didnt break is leg”…and “he has apologised”…. well i say “so fuckin what”… the intent was there and thats enough… to do that to a 19 year old kid… just because he has more class in his little toe than the who boro squad put together…
And as for Southgate… shithouse as a football…. shithouse as a manager…
I hate boro… i hate the thug pogatez and i hate the plastic faced twat southgate.
Rodrigo has got class… hes made to play for man u … and i hope he is fit soon… as it is players like him and the likes of Rafael.. that really do bring the best out of the likes of Ando and Nani etc… and the sooner we keep these players in the team the better for us….
Boro… take a lesson from our young players… they outclassed ya.. end of… just accept it… dont try n and paralise them for the fact.
fuck him
just thank sir matt possibons legs not broke
My take on this is somewhat different from the majority – I am always amazed that this sort of thing doesn’t happen much, much more often.
The speed at which the modern game is played is breathtaking and it’s only when we see “accidents” happen on “super slow motion replay” that we can judge that the guy (in this case Pogatetz) could have known better.
How many times have we seen Paul Scholes do something similar ? With Scholes we like to believe that the “accident” is not intentional because he plays for our team. Seen from another viewpoint, how many times have we seen Cristiano Ronaldo simply befuffle an opponent who fouls him because he has been comprehensively out-played and is left kicking at air (or Ronaldo himself) ?
The EPL game is played at a frenetic pace and if players were out to injure their opponents then we would see a lot more “horror tackles”. I just don’t think that an intentional foul is the issue here – more likely, the man who commits the foul is clumsy, has bad timing, or is just plain slow to react with no malice intended. I think that even though Pogatetz has done this before – as described in the comment above – it is no reason to believe that he is a dirty player, out to injure his opponent.
Denton Davey, we’ve seen Scholes go in with his studs at knee height? I don’t recall.
Denton Davey fair play for trying to defuse this… but truth be known… Pogatez is a twat end of mate.
must admit when i saw it last night i thought it was a fair 50-50 tackle and couldn’t see the problem. then i saw the replay. not good. at least it aint broken.
thought we looked pretty good last night, particularly the first half. rafael was mint and we knocked it about well. now lets get some fucking momentum going boys!!!!
Drew, the three Brazilians were awesome. I am not American and never have used the word awesome before as it’s a awful word, but I feel like using it when thinking about the three of them yesterday!!!
Great! All round awareness, chasing down the ball, skill, passing, I was really pleased for them.
I’m more bothered if this will leave any psychological scars on him. Knowing that theres a possibility he might get injured and feel pain like he did last night if a player mistimes his tackle, might scare him into going for 50-50 challenges which might down his game. I hope not though, heres a speedy recovery, he should be back in 2-4weeks if its nothing more than a really deep gash.
” we’ve seen Scholes go in with his studs at knee height?”
Actually, Scott, Pogatetz went in a shin height not knee height. That doesn’t excuse him but it does provide some perspective – Scholes regularly “misses” on his tackles and while I can’t provide a specific example there have been so many occasions where you can only cringe at his “tackling” that I am sure a survey of the archives would bring to light a similar example.
But, whether I am right or wrong about that, the main point I wanted to make is that the break-neck speed of these modern, EPL games almost guarantees this kind of “accident” or “mistake” is going to happen on a regular basis. It’s not that the foul-er is aiming to injure his opponent but, rather, that a split second is not a long period of time to make an adjustment when the ball (and the player) are moving in unpredictable ways.
I am not trying to “excuse” Pogatetz but simply pointing out that the general tendency to suggest that this was the result of dirty or reckless play is debatable.
On a much more positive note, I am very happy and relieved to have learned that Rodrigo Possebon hasn’t suffered a really serious injury. This kid is the real deal – he exudes calm and control on the ball that one rarely sees in other players and never sees in a teenager breaking in at this level. I think that he has a chance to be the very best of this new bunch of kids – Anderson, Nani, Fabio and his brother Rafael, Danny Welbeck, and so on. I am expecting huge things from Rodrigo and expect that by the middle of next year he will be teaming up with Anderson as the first choice central midfielders – even ahead of Darren Fletcherinho. A serious injury would have thrown his future into the most serious jeopardy so, thankfully, he will just move on from this incident.
Thanks Tom.
And is use of the word “awesome” a sure fire give away that one is American?? haha I guess so because I use it all the time.
DD – I’m not saying that Scholes is an angel. Whilst I tend to side with the viewpoint that Scholes is just a shit tackler of the ball, rather than a malicious one, I understand why he could get criticism from elsewhere over his tackling.
But whether it was his shin or not, I’ve never seen Scholes slide in, studs up, crashing so high up on a player’s leg like that. We see him catch people’s ankles all the time, but those are stupid challenges at ball height. To plant your studs in so high up someone’s leg is a rare kind of tackle, usually committed by the thugs of the game, not the shit tacklers.
Put him in a room with vidic! that will teach the b*stard!!!!
Apart from the samba boys Danny Welbeck looked very promising showing some excellent touches and control.Manucho looked quite a player ,things are looking good !!!!
i enjoyed the borro game apart from the tackle which was nasty,the young boys played well,things are certainly looking good.