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Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

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DOMNOLAN said:
Why was the Leeds player sent off? Genuinely didn't even seem like a foul
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It's why you're not supposed to be able to tackle from behind. Now the way the rules have been interpreted for a long time is that you're right, it isn't a foul normally, but it is when someone gets serious injured. Is that right? Probably not. But the way to make it right is probably not to ignore tackles that break players legs so much as it is to penalize it when it doesn't break players legs and I don't really think people are going to like that.

Even an incident like Son's which no one is arguing isn't a foul is usually just a yellow at most. But it is still in inherently dangerous tackle that is largely just ignored as an common foul or maybe a yellow except when it goes disastrously. I don't know what the right answer is. Stopping those challenges seems like it might be a good idea but the game changes and people can't handle that. So I think you just have to leave it and hope players don't get hurt seriously.
 
TheBigIguana said:
It's why you're not supposed to be able to tackle from behind. Now the way the rules have been interpreted for a long time is that you're right, it isn't a foul normally, but it is when someone gets serious injured. Is that right? Probably not. But the way to make it right is probably not to ignore tackles that break players legs so much as it is to penalize it when it doesn't break players legs and I don't really think people are going to like that.

Even an incident like Son's which no one is arguing isn't a foul is usually just a yellow at most. But it is still in inherently dangerous tackle that is largely just ignored as an common foul or maybe a yellow except when it goes disastrously. I don't know what the right answer is. Stopping those challenges seems like it might be a good idea but the game changes and people can't handle that. So I think you just have to leave it and hope players don't get hurt seriously.
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This is what I was comparing it to in my head. Son went in with the intention of hurting Gomes and didn’t even get the ball, but even that got rescinded.
 
DOMNOLAN said:
This is what I was comparing it to in my head. Son went in with the intention of hurting Gomes and didn’t even get the ball, but even that got rescinded.
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I just don't think you can really fix this without a larger overhaul on how you treat tackles that aren't meant to get the ball or are from reckless positions relative to the man with the ball and overhauls in football are never tolerated so what is really the point?
 


DOMNOLAN said:
Why was the Leeds player sent off? Genuinely didn't even seem like a foul
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It’s basically down to the wording in the rules something along the lines of endangering a player or something so basically any collision or tackle which causes a player to break a bone is effectively going to result in a red card even if the challenge was so innocuous and accidental because it technically endangered the player

The rules need to be changed
 
GP_Monty said:
Didn't Klopp moan about Burnley after they played a couple of weeks back? Maybe he was right, absolute bunch of carthorses.
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Burnley going down is a gift for football. I don't really mind the long ball style in theory but really it only works because of how much shithousing they do. Time-wasting from minute one, completely illegal set piece blocking off, dirty tackling and sneakily a lot of diving are all part of their game and it's horrendous.
 

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