Dita's Slot Meter wrote:
Absolute rubbish.....Are you soft or something??
There was nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong with that tackle - If that red card had stood, it would have signalled the end of football as any kind of contact sport and would have meant the sport had simply become an exhibition for players to fairy about.
You seem to have this bizarre notion that before the Premier League era, players just went about just kicking each other??..... Yes, there were players who lacked the skill of others and would try to 'level' the playing field by using their physical attributes, but that was the magic of the game in that you would actually have a proper contest, an actual challenge for those taking part - It wasn't like nowadays where you get players like Messi and Ronaldo waltzing round in the knowledge they are virtually untouchable, because tackling is basically illegal.
I hope you don't mind me asking LGJM, but how old are you and when did you actually start watching football??....I don't mean this to be a patronising question at all, its just it might give a clue as to why you view text book tackling in such a dim light.
I'm 39. Went to the same school as Andy Booth, who went on to make hundreds of appearances for Huddersfield Town and was exposed by Tottenham and Sheff Weds in the Premier League as being a HTFC player.
I was heavily pushed towards rugby by the motivation of a trip to Wembley, so RL was my my main game but I still was generally a football obsessed kid. I was picked in the squad for the junior school team the year before everyone else, but I'd kind of lied about having boots so never showed for the game. I was pretty much a superstar for the cubs team, a good player for the school team, a yo/yo starter/sub for the town boys team. 4th year of primary school I was in the town boys football and RL squads. 5th year of primary school I was in the RL squad only, but hey, we were playing at Wembley!
So I was a pretty good player, but I knew there was a difference between the pretty good players like me and the HTFC prospect Booth, and even more so a kid called Anthony Barrett, who was a future PL player (at that time). Barrett was a dual superstar, and I had a lesson in both football and rugby from him. In rugby I was going to break round him and go on to score, but that kinda didn't happen and it was Barrett who was touching down a few seconds later. That pretty much never happened to me in rugby. In football I went in with a 50/50 ball with him, we both played the ball sidefooted at the same time, for all I knew we were doing the same thing, but he emerged dribbling with the ball downfield, I was left dazed for a good few seconds wondering which invisible force had hit me and sent a shock wave through half of my body. So I do know there's a difference between the tackling techniques of good players and even better ones.
So I've been a footie obsessed kid all my life. Had the "pleasure" of watching Vinnie Jones kick people for my team.
(Jesus I'm getting old. Offering my life story to a simple question.
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Kompany's tackle is not a text book tackle. As I said earlier in the thread, it was a pussies tackle. It was just short of a two footed tackle, a 1.8 or 9 footed tackle. It's a tackle that has been text book outlawed. Kompany could have won that ball cleanly had he moved forward and dribbled past Wilshire (?). But why mess about with a 52/48 and have to mess around with the ball when you can hold back, jump in with studs showing and your trailing leg following close behind and put all the risk of injury on your opponent? "Wilshire's a decent ball player. Let's see how good he is for the next ten minutes when he's trying to run off the pain I put him through."
This time there was no injury. But there was definitely recklessness from Kompany. He jumped in, he had no control. On another day he'd have been snapping an ankle. **** that tackle, **** Kompany, **** the FA, **** Alan Hansen who doesn't understand it's not 1985 any more, and **** everyone who gets misty eyed for the good old days when players had to player through assaults every match. Football is better for allowing the talents of Ronaldo and Messi to shine. If you want to watch throwback football, watch Stoke City. When Robert Huth does that tackle on Aguero and snaps his leg you'll go deaf at the whining from Mancini and Kompany.
