Gecklund
Registered User
While I agree with your premise here, I don’t agree with giving out a straight red for a tactical foul. I mean definitely a yellow but a red seems harsh for a little pullback to slow them down. I do think injury needs to play a part in the severity here.I have no problem with a red there.
I think football fans are ridiculous. If anything there should be way way more yellow cards and red cards called, not less or whatever is orange card.
I hate technical/cynical fouls like going after the players to stop a clear counter attack. It should be a straight red. That should stop it. The best example is Choudry tackle on Salah. He never cared about the ball, he just wanted to stop a chance for Salah. He got a yellow and Salah got injured. That is just wrong. If you don't make an attempt at the ball it should be a straight red even if it is not a clear attempt to injure the other player.
There is no question that if Son does not trip Gomes, he does not break his leg. Players are responsible of their own action. Son has all the reasons to feel bad about his tackle. It is awful how people still defend it because they think the injury is the ONLY reason it is called a red card and not yellow. This should be a red card 100% of the time no mater of the injury.
I have zero problem with handling more red cards to similar foul to prevent these type of injuries.
@YNWA14
don’t feel like trying to multi quote and I’m on mobile so I’m just going to respond like this. I very very strongly disagree with suspending someone for the length of an injury for a few reasons. The first is who decides who’s at fault. Let’s look at the Mane-Ederson incident last season. Both were going 50/50 (if I remember right) and Ederson got the worst of it. So now Mane is suspended for a huge amount of time because he went for a 50/50. Just doesn’t make sense to me. The second reason is that what happens if a player suffers a setback. Say the timetable was originally 4 weeks and then they end up making it worse by training too early and now their suddenly out 4 months. The last major reason is what do you do about players who come back too early. Take Pogba for example. He injured his ankle, came back, the injury flared up again. So a player is allowed back for one game and then suspended again? I dunno maybe I’m crazy here and wrong but it just seems like it would be so hard to enforce in a sport that already has huge issues in enforcement.