August 23 – The Iron Elbow and Chilavert Mouths Off
It’s a look at the ugly side of the beautiful game today, as we look at one of the Premier League’s bad boys and a South American ‘keeper keeping those old stereotypes alive.
TODAY we bring you more musings from that lunatics lunatic, former Paraguayan goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert.
A penalty and free-kick specialist, we have already told you about the match in which he scored a hat-trick, but today in 2001 he was under fire for spitting at Roberto Carlos from extreme close range after a crucial World Cup qualification match between Brazil and Paraguay. Read more here.
“WHAT do you ‘ave to do to get a red, kill someone?”
So pondered Pompey’s favourite cockney ‘Arry Redknapp after Man City’s Ben Thatcher had laid down his challenge to Maggie for the title of ‘hardest Thatcher’ by elbowing Pedro Mendes in the face, leaving the midfielder out cold and in need of oxygen and hospital treatment. Click here for the whole story.
Speculative.
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