Premier League - Everton criticised over Pienaar

Eurosport - Tue, 18 Nov 16:01:00 2008

The South African FA have criticised Everton for preventing Steven Pienaar linking up with them ahead of Wednesday's friendly with Cameroon.

FOOTBALL 2007-2008 Premier League Everton Pienaar - 0

Everton claim the former Ajax man has suffered a recurrence of an ankle injury after coming on as a 72nd-minute substitute in the 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough on Sunday.

The Merseyside club sent a letter to SAFA late on Sunday to inform them of Pienaar's withdrawal.

Bafana Bafana team manager Sipho Nkumane told www.iol.co.za: "They said he failed a medical test after Sunday's match and thus he would not travel.

"But we are not impressed because they informed us very late. This was obviously done to make it difficult for us to get him here.

"We have requested a medical report and then we'll make a decision.

"The thing is, if they say he's injured, as they allege, he can't play in their next match."

TeamTalk / Eurosport

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  1. agreed. how can they be upset that a guy who struggled through 18 minutes of football, wont be travelling halfway across to play for them?

    From matty12345_uk, on Fri 21 Nov 6:53PM

  2. well said

    From Ben, on Tue 18 Nov 8:44PM

  3. Anyone seeing Pienaar play last Sunday when he came on as a substitute (having not been fit enough to start) could tell that he was not fit.
    If they really believe that a player withdrawn from an International squad must miss the next League game then what on earth will they make of Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, Ferdinand etc etc who will almost certainly start next weekend !?

    From timtrv@..., on Tue 18 Nov 6:12PM

  4. the message above was done by me tom

    From steveannemarie, on Tue 18 Nov 3:59PM

  5. ha ha im first

    From steveannemarie, on Tue 18 Nov 3:58PM
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