RedTez wrote:Ben Thatcher and NDJ, two of the worst, most dangerous tacklers in the perm in recent times. Do City encourage players to break limbs?
Fair play on deflecting the blame of a City hacker breaking a talented players leg, to two of the more talented, under protected players the PL has seen!
Cannot, and will not, defend Ben Thatcher. Although he honed his ‘skills’ elsewhere.
As for De Jong, he’s not dirty. He’s just committed. Overly committed at times when it isn’t necessary but he isn’t what I would call a dirty player (with the exception of the Alonso tackle). He’s the kind of player that when you go into a challenge with him you have to compete. If you go into half-hearted, you will get hurt. Looking back at the game the challenges by Tiote and Coloccini were worse as they were actually violent attacks rather than attempts to get the ball.
I am not deflecting the blame, mate. Fans, the press, clubs, managers and players give officials a hard time for not sending-off players when it was seemingly justified, and in some cases for sending-off players when they didn’t even commit a foul. Match officials face a tough job making decisions on the severity of fouls because players feign injury. Look at Nani against Liverpool when he out his hand to his face, and rolled on the floor two or three times. What happened? A Liverpool defender had put an arm across Nani’s chest. Were you embarrassed? You have to admit that the worst two are Nani and Ronaldo. Ronaldo will always be remembered for being a ‘diver’.
