Dario Silva fight for life

atpbx · 25 Sep 2006 at 19:20

Its not supposed to be a joke when i say this, but if only he had got some of those sitters at pompy eh?

Hlebio · 25 Sep 2006 at 23:30

I'm glad it's not a joke because it's not funny.

Infact I don't even understand it.

SpeedFreak · 25 Sep 2006 at 23:33

If he had scored, he wouldn't have been released, hence not in Uraguay and hence no accident. At least I think that's what he's trying to say.
Anyhow, pretty irrelevent. Good luck to him.

Gooner14 · 25 Sep 2006 at 23:33

Atpbx is saying if he had scored more at Pompey, he wouldn't of been released, and thus would have been in the country today playing and wouldn't of been back home to have the crash.

Nedved11 · 25 Sep 2006 at 23:39

Read this earlier, didn’t say anything about amputating his leg then

Worst thing ever for a footballer. However i did see a programme on SS about the one legged Brazilian footballer!

james.miller · 25 Sep 2006 at 23:44

christ thats awful. hope the guy pulls thru

Ex-RoNiN · 26 Sep 2006 at 08:22

Ouch

valerian · 26 Sep 2006 at 08:36

Clerkin said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/5377148.stm

certainly legless on that evening

Red and White · 26 Sep 2006 at 08:47

valerian said:
certainly legless on that evening

:/

[DOD]Asprilla · 26 Sep 2006 at 09:15

Linoge said:
What has that got to do with Dario Silva? Nothing at all.

The irony of sympathising with a player who has sadly lost his leg, his career and involvement in the sport he loved cut short by tragic circumstance, whilst at the same time glorifying the deliberate and premeditated ending of another professional's career though a horrific challenge.

Seemed worth pointing out to me.

[ASSE]Hinchy · 26 Sep 2006 at 09:27

Thought it was Haaland's other knee that ended his career, and ultimately not that challenge... :confused:

[DOD]Asprilla · 26 Sep 2006 at 09:40

[ASSE]Hinchy said:
Thought it was Haaland's other knee that ended his career, and ultimately not that challenge...

Your right. Just checked Haaland's website and he says it wasn't that tackle which did it.

Still, shouldn't be something that is glorified.

[ASSE]Hinchy · 26 Sep 2006 at 09:54

Absolutely. It is slightly hard to understand why someone would sympathise with a player in such a way when their sig has a challenge like that.

Still, its not gonna bother me

red11 · 26 Sep 2006 at 11:43

[DOD]Asprilla said:
Your right. Just checked Haaland's website and he says it wasn't that tackle which did it.

Still, shouldn't be something that is glorified.

I'm sorry, but two different ballparks completely. Haaland retired because of his other leg, his career hasn't been cut shorter by a freak accident and leg amputation. And this thread is about an out of work non playing (possibly semi retired/retired) footballer who has been in a horrific car crash and had his leg amputated to save his live, no comparison that I can see. :confused:

[DOD]Asprilla · 26 Sep 2006 at 11:54

Linoge said:

Fair enough.

red11 · 26 Sep 2006 at 12:05

[DOD]Asprilla said:
Fair enough.

As a Man Utd fan I can appreciate that the Keane tackle was vicious, but both players had history with each other. Not justification, but it's a reason. Both players have retired because of injury. Happens all the time, regular part of the game.

Having a car accident and losing a leg is not common for a footballer.

[DOD]Asprilla · 26 Sep 2006 at 12:09

I just find it difficult to reconcile someone having sympathy for a player who has been injured in an accident whilst simultaniously glorifying injuring a player deliberately: It's terrible if it's an accident, but it's great if someone does it on purpose.

You don't feel that the two view points are even a little bit at odds with each other?

red11 · 26 Sep 2006 at 12:54

[DOD]Asprilla said:
I just find it difficult to reconcile someone having sympathy for a player who has been injured in an accident whilst simultaniously glorifying injuring a player deliberately: It's terrible if it's an accident, but it's great if someone does it on purpose.

You don't feel that the two view points are even a little bit at odds with each other?

No, personally if there was history between the players I can understand why tackles fly in like they do. But completely unprovoked events between players who don't know each other, like Ben Thatcher and Mendes I cannot see any reason why he challenged like that. I don't think it's great at all, and I haven't said that anywhere in my post, so don't make assumptions.

I'm pointing out that these two situations are different so you cannot measure sympathy in the same way.

[DOD]Asprilla · 26 Sep 2006 at 13:00

Linoge said:
I don't think it's great at all, and I haven't said that anywhere in my post, so don't make assumptions.

I wasn't implying you thought it was great. I was implying that's the message conveyed by the sig.

Linoge said:
I'm pointing out that these two situations are different so you cannot measure sympathy in the same way.

Sympathy can be measured differently yes, absolutely, but that is different from out and out glorification.

I'd say it was acceptable to say you had no sympathy for Haaland because if the history, but I wouldn't say it was acceptable to celebrate Keane assaulting someone.