by cmonurz »
07 Mar 2011 09:56
leon cmonurz Ideal Why do you find it amusing that a man was injured?
I don't, although it's also hilarious that you would make that insinuation based on my post.
I find it amusing that you would state that Carragher has 'no business on a football pitch' as a result of a mis-timed tackle. You're reacting to Nani's injury when Rafael's tackle, with both feet off the ground, was much worse, as arguably was Maxi's studs up on Rafael in the build up to that.
"mis-timed tackle"? it was a f*cking disgraceful challenge - should have been straight off. But it was at Anfield so no. as you point out it could he been 9 against 10...
Disgraceful, sure. But it was still mistimed.
I've never quite understood the apparent need for football fans to make insinuations that players would go out to deliberately injure others, perhaps its indicative of the way football is played in parks on a Sunday, I don't know. By the laws of the game, Carragher, Rafael, and Maxi should have been sent off, but in each case they were guilty only of a recklessly poor attempt to play the ball. There are very, very, very few deliberately malicious tackles in the game, there is just a fine line between a fair and hard tackle, and one horrendously mistimed.
Fwiw (and before it's suggested this has nothing to do with allegiance) - I always have more sympathy for a player making a mistimed one-footed challenge, like Maxi, or Joe Cole against Arsenal at the start of the season, genuine (but poor) attempts to play the ball, than for a player like Rafael who takes both feet off the floor (and that's the second consecutive game against Liverpool he has got away with such a challenge).