Stoke City boss hails public response to Ryan Shawcross
Ryan Shawcross
By Nick Porter and Joe Cuffaro: Stoke City manager Tony Pulis believes the public’s reaction to Ryan Shawcross after his tackle on Aaron Ramsey has been “fantastic”.
Shawcross left the pitch in tears as the Welsh youngster was stretched off with a broken leg during the Potters 3-1 defeat to the Gunners at the Britannia Stadium last Saturday (February 27).
“Ryan has had over 300 emails off Arsenal supporters sympathising with him, and that is fantastic,” said Pulis. “I felt empty myself after the game because of the incident, but the media has been fantastic and I have had phone calls from managers, coaches and ex players.”
Ramsey underwent surgery on the fractured tibia and fibula on Sunday, but no timescale has been put on his return.
Pulis added: “It was an awkward challenge, not malicious, not vicious.
“It’s something that has happened to us only a couple of years ago with Rory Delap,” said Pulis, “Rory had exactly the same injury and it’s a dreadful accident.”
Both Stoke City and Shawcross, who this week also received his first England call up, have made contact with the Arsenal midfielder.
“We’ve been in touch, both myself and Ryan,” said the Potters boss. “We’ll let Aaron get on with it but we’ll be in touch in the future. Ryan would love to see Aaron, but we will respect his privacy.”
Pulis defended his team’s style of play, which has earned them the reputation of a tough and physical side.
“People have said we tried to out-muscle Arsenal, but if you look at the three games we’ve played them this year, we haven’t had a booking. What we do when we play the top teams is work very hard to deny them space, and there’s not a rule against that.”
Stoke now face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday (March 7) in the FA cup quarter-final, with a Wembley semi-final up for grabs.
Click below to see the full interview with Tony Pulis:
300 emails of ’support’ from Arsenal fans. . .think you’ll find it’s called SARCASM, Pulis.
Still, hope the poor young Shawcross isn’t feeling too upset after Ramsey saw fit to break his leg against the 6′ 5″ skinhead’s inocuous foot-in-the-air lunge.
By the way, anyone know whether Francis Jeffers has fully recovered?
‘The media have been fantastic ! ‘
No I don’t think so , the media have been disgraceful, if I had been away for a week and looked at the papers I would have thought it was Shawcross who got assaulted and Ramsey had done the fouling.
The media managed to sweep under the carpet the previous assaults Shawcross has carried out.’He’s not that type of player”what a nice young man”he was crying leaving the pitch”His mum had to take him home’ Oh my haert bleeds esp reading the interview with him when he says that it’s been a hard week,yeah absolutely a killer for him after all wasn’t he the player who snapped Ramseys leg in half.I guess that Ramsey’s had a nice relaxing week catching up with his friends on international duty and having a good time.Oh of course not , he’s restricted to his bed because his leg nearly got severed off but as long as RShawcross has had a difficult week that’s Ok.
When he breaks another players leg ( i say when as 3 times already and he still won’t change his game)he may be lucky that the player may not be English or plays for arsenal but can you imagine the uproar if it was Rooney or Gerard he did it too.I myself hope he gets a serious injury himself(at least a year out ) maybe even himself thinking he may never play again and then see if he thinks that the coward/bully who did this to him has had a difficult week.as for Pullis how can you take any old man seriously who wears a baseball cap at his age and headbutts his own players.All I can say about the 300 emails Ryan has got from arsenal fans commiseratinmg with him for his incredible lack of fortune when carrying out this assault is he must have a 100 x more saying what an utter hacker/coward he is who should still be kicking people in the Championship where he belongs.
Did any Stoke fans write to Aaron Ramsey?
Did any of you ask him what his view will be if Shawcross injures another opponent? What he will do to make it more certain that this won’t happen?
Doubt it.
Pulis….you are a shame and disgrace …further more if you feel that teaching your players to PLAY football is a thing your not capable of….plaese just retire..and take that bonecrusher shaw**** with you….he may just be the worst talent i have ever seen……give him a ball…and all he can do is kick it far away…back here we all have a good laugh looking at that ****…Pulis wake up poor managers like yourself is what stopping England from moving forward and be amongst the best nations where thay belong….and one question….do you have a heart ???????
Spot the Arsenal fans.
Leave the lad alone. He plays hard and fair, on this occasion, he was slightly late, and the result of this were horrific, yes, but there is no way on this planet that Shawcross went out there to do that to Ramsey.
We see hard, late tackles week in, week out, but 99.9% of the time, there is thankfully no serious injury. This incident was just “one of those things.”
I hope Ramsey recovers ASAP, as I think he has a very bright future ahead of him, but for someone to wish an injury on Shawcross is just sick and very narrowminded.
Such a usefule blog wow !!!!
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