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'No need for tears' - Stan Collymore tells Salomon Rondon

Former Villa striker and mental health campaigner Stan Collymore claims there was ‘no need’ for Salomon Rondon to break down in tears after James McCarthy’s double leg break.

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Albion’s No.9 has been heralded for his humane response to the nasty injury suffered by the Everton midfielder last weekend.

Rondon urged referee Stuart Atwell to stop the game in order to bring medics on, and had to be consoled on the pitch by team-mates and Baggies boss Alan Pardew.

He’s also planning to visit McCarthy once the Republic of Ireland international recovers from surgery.

However, Collymore has suggested in his Daily Mirror column that Rondon should not have had such an emotional reaction to the awful injury because 'it's a tough game at times'.

Collymore wrote: “Salomon Rondon’s tearful reaction to James McCarthy’s awful injury was interesting – and it reiterated what I said a couple of weeks ago about the lack of physicality in the game these days.

“Broken legs are part of football and always have been, and just as there was no blame on Rondon, there was no need for any tears from him.

“It’s a tough game at times and I don’t want to see the West Brom No.9 now using what happened at the weekend to McCarthy as an excuse for any dip in form.

“He must roll up his sleeves and move on.”

Collymore’s comments raised eyebrows among Albion fans, because in May last year he criticised Piers Morgan for telling footballers suffering from mental health problems to ‘man up’.

The striker suffered from depression during his spell at Villa.