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“He was lucky” – John Paintsil jokes about incident with Peter Crouch

Bernard Osei by Bernard Osei
August 20, 2020
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John Painstil has built a reputation for himself as a fearsome competitor – one with the propensity to employ unorthodox and almost unsporting approach to subduing opponents.

For example, he once tried to distract Everton striker Yakubu Aiyigbeni by grabbing his ‘balls’.

He also squeezed Steven Gerrard’s ribs so hard that the former Liverpool captain almost came to tears.

And then there is the famous story of when he threatened to break former England striker, Peter Crouch’s legs.

So when Painstil made an appearance on Citi TV’s pidgin sports show, Football Made in Ghana, host Fentuo Tahiru asked Painstil for his side of the Crouch story.

“He was lucky. I remember the incident well. I told him I was going to break his leg and I gave him one [tackle]. That was a little tackle though but yeah”.

A couple of years ago, Crouch hilariously detailed his traumatizing encounter with Paintsil and why he’ll not want to see the Ghanaian any time soon.

“He went through me so I started giving him a bit of stick. I said ‘you’re useless. How are you even on this pitch? Your mates are laughing at you. You cost your team every week’. I had to check the back of his shirt for his name, I was giving him a lot of stick”

While ‘Crouchy’ might have been pleased with himself at that moment for having got under the player’s skin, what happened next, convinced him that his trash-talking days were over, after they had barely begun.

“Then I just saw him switch, he changed. I asked [Paintsil’s teammate] Aaron Hughes ‘what’s the matter with this fella?’ He said ‘he’s a nutcase.’ Basically, ‘what have you done?!”

Crouch added that after some threats from the defender that he would end his career, convincing him that he had taken on the wrong person at the wrong time, he beat a hasty retreat.

He attempted to avoid Paintsil further in the game by moving over to the other centre-back.

This had no effect apparently on Painstil, who was seeing red and couldn’t care less about formations and strategy at that moment, basically abandoning his post to seek revenge.

This had Crouch wondering whether he might have played his last ever game.

“[Paintsil] said he was going to end my career, he said he’d break my legs. He was playing the right side of centre-half so I conveniently moved to the left side. He didn’t care about formations and tactics, he left a massive hole at one side of the pitch and was following me around. I was thinking ‘Oh my God, he’s going to kill me. He was trying to throw these elbows in.”

While stating that he didn’t ‘snitch’ on Paintsil to the ref during the game, Crouch admitted that he ratted him to his dad.

“I didn’t grass on him. I told my dad afterwards, and he was fuming,”

 

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