QUOTE (X-Offender @ Mar 4 2012, 09:28 PM)

Which were they? I only remember the Tottenham one.
There was one major one a few matches after the Tottenham one. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Against Spurs it was bad, but that last one was unforgivable, that too so soon. And there were a bunch of other minor ones that were spread through most of his time here. I'm inclined to think he makes these dangerous two-footed tackles by instinct, maybe not intent.
But either way they are bad. Very bad. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I'm also pretty much inclined to call anyone that has no regard for his (or his opponent player's safety) a dirty little basturd. Be it two-footed tackles, rakes to the face, or lethal elbows. Be it Flamini, Pirlo, De Rossi, Pepe, or Dani Alves. Anybody really. Where's grace, when you need it?!
Like I say, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Or a leg. (IMG:
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style_emoticons/default/realmad.gif) It's cheap, dirty, rotten, sneaky and has no place in sports, and more importantly a game like football. If you want to hurt anyone, go and sign up for a wrestling or MMA company, where pretty much any athlete will eat you alive.
I've been saying this for a while, and I'll say this again until people listen: Malicious shticks like these can go a long way in hurting, or even ruining someone's life. An eyeball or knee may pop up, and that's a sight I don't want to see. Keep it clean, keep it safe. I'll forgive or say pass to cheating, but not malicious moves and tackles.
QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Mar 4 2012, 09:31 PM)

See almost every game he's played. It's his trademark, like Ambro's elbow.
Aye. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) I mean it's not something new, and some may say you need a punk like that in the midfield, but for someone like me who abhors violence, dirty tricks like these are a sad, sad affair. Most of the time it's pure luck footballers are not lethally injured.
I still terribly, terribly dislike Messi for the deliberate foot to the face of Maicon in that fateful CL match (in San Siro), which resulted in his teeth flying off. I've still got that in HD quality somewhere, and it was still a teeth, but I cringe every time I see that. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif) And there are much worse football accidents on Youtube.
Yes, footballers are overpaid individuals, yes they are scoundrels for having the club pay their taxes too. But there should be a set rule for malicious violence. There is, but I'd like it better enforced by UEFA. (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) Not the fluff they pull off when Ibra playfully slaps someone and gets a 3 match ban, and the turd known as Chiellini walks clean away for the stuff he pulled off this season.
Hard and harsh tackles may be 50/50, but two-footed tackles are not - irrespective of if they hurt someone or not.