ok, Lets start with Martin Taylor’s horror tackle on Eduardo. Alex McLeish was particular disgraceful in his comments, calling Martin Taylor’s red card ‘harsh’. Harsh? Perhaps they haven’t seen the images of the tackle up close?. It's ridiculous to hear people defend the tackle. It's one thing to say "OK, he doesn't deserve more than a 3 or 5 match ban", it's another to say things like "the tackle was harmless, he was just unlucky", or "it looks worse than it is because he got injured". This logic is pathetic, and it's ridiculous.
Take a look at Ashley cole's tackle on Tottenham's Alan Hutton here.Cole went studs-up on Tottenham full-back Hutton at White Hart Lane, sparking a furious reaction on the touchline.Referee Mike Riley gave Cole a yellow card inspite of cole turning his back on the referee.From my viewpoint, Cole was extremely lucky not to be sent off, as Wayne Rooney was for his challenge on Niko Kranjcar in the FA Cup
There are many players like Makelele, Roy Keane , Robbie Savage, Joey Barton, Steven Gerrard and so on that have gotten away with worse, more intentional tackles, but only because the other players avoided injury.
One can appreciate English mentality of wanting to always win, but this has to be done the right way. It should not become like Italy, where the game stopping every 5 minutes. But that bad tackles and bad behavior are properly punished.
3 comments:
u suck ..!!
but your blog rocks..!!
dude, you trying for GRE or what?
First and foremost i cudnt help reading ur blog even though it was meant for Fed Fans..I would like to disagree on the point that fed is the GOAT(Greatest player of all time). Simple reasons
1) If you are considering 14 slams to support your point then i guess the opponents also matter much. Sampras had to battle against the greats like Agassi, Edburg,courier, becker,goran,chang and the list goes on. But for FedEx there was only Rafa.
2) Head to Head against Rafa,Murray and also number of slams played to slams won (early carrier most of them were first round exits)
All said and done Fed is one of the best but not the best...
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