Oliveira: ‘I could be blinded by Mings’ marking’

For the serious injury he sustained during his attendance at the English Reading spoke to the website “readingchronicle.co.uk” o Nelson Oliveira.

The Portuguese striker of PAOK claimed that his marking Tyrone Mings it could leave him blind and how that led to him wanting to leave the English league.

“It was this incident that made me want to leave England, because after Reading (he played on loan from Norwich) I had a lot of chances to stay in England and the Championship. I was disappointed with English football because in my opinion the Aston Villa defender did it on purpose. Players, even kids who play football, know that it could be easily avoided because we see everything on the field. We see where we put our feet. Because he had the dirtiest way to play, he didn’t shy away from it.

He marked me in the face like he did with Ibrahimovic. One player marked the face of two players, I don’t recall him causing two injuries to the face of two players. Maybe he’s unlucky – he must be really unlucky. The current Villa captain apologized at the time, characteristically telling me at the time that ‘no one feels worse than me’.”he initially said.

On how the FA dealt with this incident and the non-punishment Mings said: “I was disappointed because nothing happened, there was no punishment. He didn’t even get a red card and wasn’t punished. Thank God I only have a few scars from then but I could be blind or my career stopped! I just want to ask a question: if it was Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford or another British player in my position in this marking – would he be treated the same? Would the FA do nothing? I don’t think so, and that’s what makes me unhappy about the situation.”