Yes gobbledigook it all up into an indiscriminate mish mash if you will, but some players do it far more than others. And as I say again, there are a very minority few, like De Jong, like Shawcross, that just so happen put their fellow professionals out for weeks on end. Repeatedly - they have a history of these types of barbaric fouls. The majority are getting a bit physical, the few that I keep remind you are utterly dangerous; it's behaviour that can't be justified and glossed over 'as a bit physical'.*
You go on with your gobbledigook mish mash like it happens every week, when in fact its about 2 tackles out of 2,000. Seriously fella, get a grip. Maybe attend a football match every now and again?
Muscle consistency (which makes as much sense as the arguments you're making I'm not even certain what that means?!) has nothing to do with it - do all players of Shawcross and De Jong's size have a history? No.
Bold: Really? Or should a stronger player know that he's significantly more well built than somebody else and show a bit of restraint? Or perhaps learn how to tackle - there is an art to it don't forget, that involves not seriously injuring another player. Or more worryingly, are you actually inferring it's the fault of those victims because they're smaller. For example it's Ben Arfa's fault he suffered a broken leg simply because he's smaller than De Jong (totally ignoring the fact that it was totally unnecessary to attempt to do so in that fashion?).
You've misunderstood me, again. A little man should know not to go all into a 50/50 challenge with a player twice his size, the De Jong tackle was a bad tackle, I've never disputed that, he was 100% wrong (him being cut out of the Dutch squad is a nothing move as Van Bommel does the same job, but perhaps a bit dirtier

Great centre backs over the years have been great because they're massive, ugly, and scare the crap out of the players running at them. They're an English institution. Keown, Adams, anyone?
Spitting : it basically means that Hull City realised their allegations were utterly false, video evidence proved this, but then going by what you were insinuating above you seemingly don't hold such evidence in high esteem at all do you?**
Nope. Have you got a source for this? From what I read at the time it seemed Brian Horton didn't bother taking it any further because he knows the FA are useless at punishments.
So do you think it's worth it, or not?**![]()
Do I think they should act on broken limb fouls retrospectively? Yes, of course. De Jong would be banned for quite a few matches if it happens. The bad news for you is if that were to have happened with the Ramsey accident Shawcross wouldn't have missed any more games than he did because it was a 50/50.
It was discussed to death at the time and the fact you've still got such strong feelings towards makes it clear you haven't gotten over it. Can you get your next lot of gibberish back to me fairly quickly? It's been fun, but I'm way past being bored of you.
