grecian
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TBF, I'd been watching the match and I was thinking the same thing, wish I'd cashed out my bet though, but just looked like "another" of those nights for the arse.
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*Official* English Football Season 2012-13
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Jarquis
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I was ruing not putting money on the draw up until that moment.
Scaly piscine
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It wasn't a red card challenge. He knew what he was doing, was late but made sure to take him out with the trailing leg.
sledger
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More or less my thoughts exactly.Doesn't jump in?
Regardless of anything else, it's a shocking tackle, however you want to look at it.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Do you guys even know the actual rules on tackling? Biggest armchair experts.
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Nah he slides in. Left leg doesn't leave the ground.Doesn't jump in?
BoyBrumby
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Tom Halsey
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What actually is the problem with the Scholes tackle exactly other than it just being a **** tackle? From a danger point of view it's not high and it's not two footed.
With regards to jumping in I actually think it's pretty much as close to not jumping in as it's possible to get. Not sure I've ever seen a tackle on slow-mo that didn't look like the tackler was jumping in. There might be a selection bias there as it's only the bad tackles you see in slow-mo, but I've never understood how you're supposed to simultaneously not leave the ground at all whilst keeping studs down.
With regards to jumping in I actually think it's pretty much as close to not jumping in as it's possible to get. Not sure I've ever seen a tackle on slow-mo that didn't look like the tackler was jumping in. There might be a selection bias there as it's only the bad tackles you see in slow-mo, but I've never understood how you're supposed to simultaneously not leave the ground at all whilst keeping studs down.
grecian
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It's uncontrolled, and at the moment of impact it is high, not on the ground, he onl;y grounds after. All this two-footed twaddle and it having to be particularly high is silly, it's excessive IMHO. Could easily have broken an ankle and had no chance of getting the ball. It's also later than this Mayan apocalypse we were promised.
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It's not like we pulled the two-footed/studs-up/excessively high criteria out of our arse though, that's how the law is interpreted these days. If you're trying to say that Scholes gets special treatment then it's nonsense because no one else would have been sent off for a foul like that either.
But if your point is that the law makes it too easy to take someone's legs out and affect his performance by making him fear for his safety then yeah I agree. The law wasn't designed for such a professional era. Maybe a yellow used to be useful as a "calm down, less of that sort of thing" gesture but now it's just a "one free reducer attempt" or "stop-a-promising-counter-for-free" card. When Scholes finishes a game without a booking he probably thinks of it as a waste.
I hate how pundits in this country always talk about how it's "good to see the ref keep his cards in his pocket" when they let someone off a clear booking purely because it happened in the first ten minutes. Having a De Jong or a Lucas get booked early on is often the best thing that can happen for the game as a spectacle.
But if your point is that the law makes it too easy to take someone's legs out and affect his performance by making him fear for his safety then yeah I agree. The law wasn't designed for such a professional era. Maybe a yellow used to be useful as a "calm down, less of that sort of thing" gesture but now it's just a "one free reducer attempt" or "stop-a-promising-counter-for-free" card. When Scholes finishes a game without a booking he probably thinks of it as a waste.
I hate how pundits in this country always talk about how it's "good to see the ref keep his cards in his pocket" when they let someone off a clear booking purely because it happened in the first ten minutes. Having a De Jong or a Lucas get booked early on is often the best thing that can happen for the game as a spectacle.
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So Swindle Town are skint again. No great surprise. Hope they get a massive point deduction as they are serial offenders.