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Canada vs Qatar

What am I reading on here?
Every tackle is a red according to some of you as every tackle "enganders the safety of an opponent".
Get those reds out, match abandoned, every is safe!
 
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ARF said:
IMO 99 times out of 100 that very same tackle would cause no injury whatsoever, the referee might give a caution, and nothing more would be said about it. Should we really punish the 1% case differently because the outcome was different? If a player has an undiagnosed weakness in their tib/fib that means their very next collision will result in a break - does that mean the next player who carelessly trips him gets a red?

SFP should be judged on the merits of the foul itself, not on the consequences.
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Agree with some of your post. And sometimes even with a serious injury there shouldn't be a red card.

However, expectations aside, even those who dont agree with a red (and I thin you as well) think this was a yellow and reckless. I will have a stab at another logic. A reckless challenge that causes a serious injury to an opponent fits the definition of endangering the safety of an opponent.
 
If you go out in the street and push a random person, you could end up with an assault conviction. However, depending on how serious the injuries are to the victim, that same action could land you with a GBH or manslaughter charge. The principle is that you shouldn't have unlawfully pushed that person and, regardless of intent, you are responsible for how the victim ended up.

I have no problem with the same principle being applied to football: if a player intentionally fouls an opponent thereby breaking that opponent's leg, surely a serious sanction should follow?
 
Mr Dean said:
I have no problem with the same principle being applied to football: if a player intentionally fouls an opponent thereby breaking that opponent's leg, surely a serious sanction should follow?
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I think I agree, but it’s hard because I would want and to extend this to players pushing other players off the pitch in to advertising boards/ railings.

Also to think of a recent example, the Sunderland striker who pushed Romero in to his own keeper which meant Romero was then out for the season - Red card for him too.
 
I can think of at least three levels of a leg breaking foul tackles when challenging for the ball.
- There was no malice in the tackle, a broken leg outcome was unexpected.
- the intent of the tackle was not to break the leg but the broken leg outcome should have been expected
- the intent of the outcome was to hurt the opponent

For me all of the above are red cards. It is the length of suspension that should look at the level of leg breaking foul tackle.
 
That’s a ludicrous decision. And further backs up my view that FIFA should not be able to make law changes mid-tournament. They overreact to incidents on a ridiculous level, this will have come from a combination of Infantino, Wenger and Collina.

If it was Messi, Ronaldo, Kane, Vini Jr, etc, who had made that fairly innocuous challenge does anyone think they would be getting a 5 game ban? I very much doubt it.
 
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