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Stoke City boss jumps to Shawcross defence
10:30 AM 28 February, 2010
Stoke City Football Club boss Tony Pulis has leapt to the defence of Ryan Shawcross.

The 22-year-old was sent off against Arsenal for a foul on Aaron Ramsey, which resulted in the Wales international suffering a horrific leg break which some have described as career-threatening.

Arsene Wenger has made no secret of his distaste of the challenge, but Pulis insists Shawcross, who left the field in tears, doesn’t have a malicious bone in his body.

"It is a bad challenge but I know Shawcross, I signed him as a 19-year-old,” he said. "He has got no bad blood in him and there is no way in a million years he would ever go out to hurt anybody.

“I really mean that. Everyone else at this football club sends their condolences on the incident, we wish him well for a speedy recovery and as a fellow Welshman I am devastated.

"But Ryan has come off the pitch broken-hearted, met his mum straightaway and gone straight home. For me the game is insignificant, the incident has really spoiled it."

The Gunners went on to win the game 3-1 thanks to a late Cesc Fabregas penalty and a Thomas Vermaelen tap-in, having earlier trailed to an eighth minutes Danny Pugh goal.

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bill wrote 10:37 AM 01 Mar, 2010
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this is for Ryan Shawcross, anybody that has ever played or truly supported football could see there was no intent in your tackle young man , yea it was hard but thats allowed, im an everton fan but feel i have to give you my support, arsen wenger needs to look at the tackle again & apologise for his comments , we have all seen bad tackles even in the last couple of weeks, this was not even close to that . chin up young man & have a great career by playing the way you have all season , speedy recovery to young ramsey
true_gooner wrote 07:22 PM 28 Feb, 2010
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Good shout Shadowlander! im a hard arsenal and honestly my first thoughts were all hate to Shawcross. But in all fairness you could see he didnt even mean to go in like that. He walked away with tears that clearly shows he felt so bad. Speedy recovery for aaron hopefully he is in my eyes a mini fabregas!
Shadowlander wrote 10:56 AM 28 Feb, 2010
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Ryan Shawcross should get all the sympathy we as football fans can give him. He obviously went for a 50/50 ball with his bootlaces up and his eyes firmly on the ball not the player. With his leg already in a precarious standing position, at the point of impact, Aaron Ramsey was simply unlucky. Accident like this will always happen in fast moving sports such as football and there is no point vilifying a young player when they occur. What should happen is that players who leap in two footed, with their studs showing, should be automatically suspended and warned that future unsportsmanly behaviour would result in heavier penalties.
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