Ben Thatcher you are a C**T

All day, Sky News have been showing the "tackle" by Ben Thatcher on Pedro Mendes in last night's football match between Manchester City and Portsmouth. Thatcher is just out-of-order. He runs into the guy at full speed and smacks him in the face with his forearm, then just walks off with the guy left laying dazed on the floor. He doesn't even look back. When one of the Portsmouth players tells him to look at what he has done, he tells him where to go. Even when the ref shows him a yellow card (which should have been a red!) he tells the ref to F**k off! The guy just doesn't care.
Pedro Mendes was left laying on the floor staring into space, after being sent sliding along the floor and into advertising hordings. He had to be given oxygen on the pitch and had seizures apparently before being carried off and spending the night in hospital.
I was pleased to hear that the FA and the Greater Manchester Police are looking at alterring the rules to make a prosecution against him. Personally, I would just ban the guy from the pitch! Permanently! Affect his bank balance, that seems to be the only thing that affects these guys. Get him off the screens, where kids cannot be influenced by his violent behaviour. I would have enterred a video of the.... attack is the best word... but it isn't on there yet.