“The Frog Pepe meme was named a symbol of hate and something similar has happened to another Pepe, who is not a frog, it is Kepler Laveran de Lima Ferreira, author of a large number of records that are stained by a career marked by the violence”. With this harsh comparison starts her column in The Sun the vice president of West Ham United, Karren Brady. This does not hesitate in her space in the British newspaper to harshly criticize Pepe, Porto center-back and former Real Madrid, for his latest controversies in Portugal.
This criticizes his last episode in the derby between Porto and Sporting in which Pepe ended up expelled after a numerous brawl. This served to urge Pepe to finish his career. “He doesn’t have much of a career left. He will be 39 shortly and there are reports that he could be suspended for two years. I can understand that you have to be competitive but going crazy for 20 years is not the way to do it.”started.
Subsequently, Brady reviewed several of his most controversial episodes (with Casquero, Albín, a stomp on Messi or with the national team) before ‘sentence’ the Portuguese. “Pepe has said goodbye to his career and we shouldn’t be impressed that some kind soul gave him a job in football. The fact that this man can have so much hate is a good reason to close the stadium doors on him. He will have tried to clean his run, but it would take a mop bucket and disinfectant to remove just a bare minimum. What happened in Do Dragao is the end point for Rana Pepe. There is only one consolation: the spectators did not participate.”
After the incidents of the derby, Pepe has been sanctioned preventively with two matches although the Portuguese Football Federation would have opened a disciplinary file that could increase the sanction from two months to two years. The reason would be the attack on a director of Sporting de Portugal that was recorded in the match record by the referee.