That Tarkowski challenge on Richarlison was nuts, Burnley are genuinely the most protected team in the league for some reason
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That Tarkowski challenge on Richarlison was nuts, Burnley are genuinely the most protected team in the league for some reason -
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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.Comment
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Feels like I die inside a little more every day.Support Local Sports
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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.Comment
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And another Forest manager bites the dust. It’s almost like the “throw **** at the wall and hope it sticks” method isn’t optimal.Comment
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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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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.Comment
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NBA made standing underneath a shooter while they land a foul so guys wouldn’t roll their ankles anymoreComment
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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.Comment
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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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Our passing has been buttcheeks but Southampton are certainly earning their pointComment
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