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  • Brahvocado
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    • Oct 2012
    • 7480

    #241
    Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

    That Tarkowski challenge on Richarlison was nuts, Burnley are genuinely the most protected team in the league for some reason

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    • KG
      Welcome Back
      • Sep 2005
      • 17583

      #242
      Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

      Originally posted by Brahvocado
      That Tarkowski challenge on Richarlison was nuts, Burnley are genuinely the most protected team in the league for some reason

      Liverpool would like a word with you [emoji23]


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      • Brahvocado
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        • Oct 2012
        • 7480

        #243
        Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

        Goodness that new stuff about more french NT players as well as Boateng, have a feeling more and more of this stuff is going to be coming out, definitely feels like a floodgates kind of moment happening here.

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        • Suntan Superman
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          • Feb 2009
          • 7135

          #244
          Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

          Originally posted by Brahvocado
          Goodness that new stuff about more french NT players as well as Boateng, have a feeling more and more of this stuff is going to be coming out, definitely feels like a floodgates kind of moment happening here.
          Feels like I die inside a little more every day.
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          • Brahvocado
            MVP
            • Oct 2012
            • 7480

            #245
            Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

            Originally posted by Suntan Superman
            Feels like I die inside a little more every day.
            Some of that stuff is so disturbing and unhinged, then i think about how much stuff older generations of players must have gotten away with and i have to go do something else for a while.

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            • BunnyHardaway
              Banned
              • Nov 2004
              • 15195

              #246
              Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

              And another Forest manager bites the dust. It’s almost like the “throw **** at the wall and hope it sticks” method isn’t optimal.

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              • 3304Life
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                • Sep 2016
                • 3002

                #247
                Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                Originally posted by Brahvocado
                That Tarkowski challenge on Richarlison was nuts, Burnley are genuinely the most protected team in the league for some reason

                While on paper it’s a good tackle it was almost a carbon copy of Mee’s tackle on Gomez in 2018 which broke his leg, in a season where he and Van Dijk conceded 7 goals in 16 games and I’m convinced without that injury we would’ve had a league and Champions League double.


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                • Krebstar
                  is looking at stats.
                  • May 2005
                  • 12904

                  #248
                  Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                  No—it's not a good tackle, on paper or anywhere else. Any challenge that increases the chance of injuring an opponent exponentially is not a good tackle.

                  It's not 1972, and I'll never be able to understand how many injuries must occur for this to be accepted. Touching the ball with your foot does not excuse whatever action came before it, or whatever contact occurs after it.

                  In this thread in the past, other sports have been used to add context. Well, in what sport could someone put their opponent in that amount of unnecessary danger or risk for injury, only it for to be acceptable due to it being considered part of the game because, well, they touched the ball, puck, whatever.

                  Notice the word unnecessary—that's the point. You can actually attempt to play defense in the position Tarkowski was in, or you could attempt to win the ball without jumping in with two feet. That challenge is not football, neither was the Brownhill challenge on Richarlison earlier in the match which was the classic sweeping/trapping with the trailing leg nonsense that players ****ing know will bring someone down.

                  **** me.
                  Last edited by Krebstar; 09-16-2021, 05:51 PM.

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                  • BunnyHardaway
                    Banned
                    • Nov 2004
                    • 15195

                    #249
                    Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                    NBA made standing underneath a shooter while they land a foul so guys wouldn’t roll their ankles anymore

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                    • Krebstar
                      is looking at stats.
                      • May 2005
                      • 12904

                      #250
                      Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                      Hell, go watch a rugby match and count the number of rules put in place to protect players, that do not affect the quality or entertainment of the sport. There are things that happen in a football match that would get a rugby player sent off, but “it’s football” so we’re just supposed to get over it, I guess.

                      Those damn rugby players, bunch of babies wrapped in bubble wrap, I tell ya.

                      A good tackle on paper made from a tree pulped 50+ years ago.

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                      • 3304Life
                        MVP
                        • Sep 2016
                        • 3002

                        #251
                        2021-2022 English Football Thread

                        He literally wins the ball and isn’t straight on, he hasn’t gone over the top of the ball. It’s a textbook tackle regardless of era. Fair enough if it’s not to your taste, it’s not exactly to mine either but just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s bad, surprisingly enough.

                        It’s like this is news with Burnley anyway. They are what people thought Stoke were all that time.

                        But looking at tackles like that and wanting players to face punishment for it we’re literally going to end up with a game without contact. Defenders should’ve had to shirk away from winning the ball because someone might think they’re being mean.

                        Bringing other sports into the equation doesn’t sit right with me either. Rugby and football split over a century ago. They’re similarly physical sports, just that dispossessing a player in football is done with the feet and with rugby it’s bodily. There is probably a similar proportion of upper body injuries (especially concussion) in rugby as there is with upper body injuries in football, which are generally rare.


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                        Last edited by 3304Life; 09-17-2021, 11:16 AM.

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                        • BunnyHardaway
                          Banned
                          • Nov 2004
                          • 15195

                          #252
                          Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                          Originally posted by 3304Life

                          Bringing other sports into the equation doesn’t sit right with me either.


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                          …because it runs counter to your anachronistic viewpoint?

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                          • Krebstar
                            is looking at stats.
                            • May 2005
                            • 12904

                            #253
                            Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                            Originally posted by 3304Life
                            He literally wins the ball

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                            • BunnyHardaway
                              Banned
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 15195

                              #254
                              Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                              Our passing has been buttcheeks but Southampton are certainly earning their point

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                              • ImTellinTim
                                YNWA
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 33028

                                #255
                                Re: 2021-2022 English Football Thread

                                Oh my word, Keita!

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