Source: Team_Talk
Pedro fuming over Haining challenge
The former Tottenham and Portsmouth player was carried off on a stretcher during Rangers' 3-0 Homecoming Scottish Cup semi-final win on Saturday.[LNB]Haining's boot appeared to catch Mendes on the knee after the Saints defender had got his foot to a high ball.[LNB]No free-kick was awarded but the Portuguese player was scathing about the challenge, even though he expects to be fit for the SPL clash against Hearts at Ibrox on Sunday.[LNB]"I should be okay to play this weekend," Mendes said in the Evening Times.[LNB]"My knee swelled up quite a bit but I should be fit.[LNB]"If my foot had been planted on the pitch, then that kind of tackle could have broken my leg.[LNB]"These are some of the tackles that can happen in Scotland; it is a harder, tougher and faster kind of football than the English Premier League."[LNB][LNB][LNB]
