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Have you tried the police? I'm not being funny, but this is a criminal action and should be reported as such. I'm sorry this has happened to you and I hope you take all the time you need to recover, both physically and mentally, while your association supports you entirely.

Shirt pulling is not a mandatory caution and you often see minor shirt pulls during things like corner kicks. However, the large shirt pull where the shirt resembles a sail can often be an indicator of SPA; where it is not SPA, you can (and usually should) still caution these kinds of shirt...

Double jeopardy is only for DOGSO, so no. However, I'm not sure you can justify SFP in this situation. The force and speed of the tackle may have been high enough to point to excessive force, but you lack the consideration of point of contact (since there was none). In this case, and based on...

You should report this to the competition.

I would give a direct free kick and no misconduct for this. The player clearly lunges into the challenge, which makes it a foul; but there is no point of contact at all so calling it reckless is a stretch.

If the arm had not been used, would the body have blocked the ball? In that case, has the arm really made the body unnaturally bigger?

An important note here is that I don't signal advantage until I'm giving advantage, which means that I don't pull it back once I've said I'm giving it. This leads to less frustration from the players.

I'm a Spurs supporter and I can affirm this was a nailed on sending off. Studs to high ankle, locked leg, off the ground, lunging tackle, high speed and high force. It's excessive force, it's serious foul play all day long.

Well, the OP doesn't say which team Player A is on, hence why I asked.

"A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched by a team-mate is only penalized on becoming involved in active play..." (Emphasis Mine). That's 11.2. So it is materially important to know what team Player A is on. In other words, who did the ball deflect off of -- a...

The referee set you up for that one, didn't he? :P

It all depends on whether you, as referee, determine that the boots are safe or unsafe.

Wait, what team is Player A on?

I think the answers you've received are very much sufficient.

Nobody has said that violence is acceptable. In fact, I was explicit: violence is unacceptable; violence by a man against a woman is even more heinous.

I had the same thought. It really goes some way to indicating the players' mentality. They truly think that they are immune to consequences on the grounds that they are players.

Sorry, that should read "which is, equally, disgusting."

Yes. If a man squares up to an 85 year old woman and smacks her, that is significantly more disgusting than doing it to an 85 year old man (which is equally disgusting).

There's zero chance that I'm getting that involved at that point and ruining a legitimate and legal play by the Leipzig player. Would you start shouting that the ball was in play when a team does the little tap on the corner kick?

I couldn't disagree any more intensely than I do with this.