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West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady has been scathing in her criticism of Porto defender Pepe.

Brady had plenty to say about Pepe in her column in the British newspaper the Sun following a headbutt from the Portuguese veteran in Porto's 2-2 draw with Sporting CP.

"He hasn't much of a football career left," wrote Brady.

"He's 39 next week and there are suggestions that he will be suspended for two years.

"I understand they must be competitive, but nutting your way through 20 years is not the way to do it."

She even compared the ex-Real Madrid man to the meme Pepe the Frog.

"Once a comic internet meme, Pepe the Frog has been named a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League," she added.

"Something rather similar has happened to another Pepe who is not a frog but Kepler Laveran de Lima Ferreira, owner of all manner of records but whose career statistics have been blighted by violence."

Brady also feels that if this were the end of his career, it would be appropriate for a player with a disciplinary record like he has.

"Pepe has now said goodbye to his career. No doubt some impressionable soul will give him a job in our game," Brady said.

"But the fact that a man can stir up so much hatred and contempt is good cause to keep the stadium doors closed on him.

"It is possible he has tried to cleanse his game but you need a scrubbing brush and a bucket of disinfectant to do even a tiny bit of the job.

"So, the events in the Estadio do Dragao are a fitting curtain for Pepe the Frog.

"There is one consolation. Spectators did not join in."

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West Ham vice-chairman criticises Pepe: This should be the end of his career - Marca English