Originally Posted by
Lawnmower
Your 4 ex footballers were commenting on the TV pictures.
I don't know or care what they said.
If any of them had a clue they would be managers now, between them they've had a fair few opportunities.
I'd be a hypocrite if I was to take the lines that many have and sttaced Bennett.
I've done similar to him hundreds of times and never been sent off for it. Sometimes I won the ball sometimes I didn't, I don't remember ever seriously hurting a player, it's mostly ended up with the player tripping over my leg and getting up again.
As is normally the case when it's happens in games I watch. Sometimes the tackler gets the worse of it ( remember Gazza)
Mendez Laing survived worse at home to Leeds and Madine away at Leeds.
You seem obsessed by the issue of sending off. I wouldn't have complained if he had, as I have pointed out before, but the problem is people are trying to make out he went in to injure Sane and I don't agree. These days there doesn't seem to be much clarity on what is or isn't- it's just the refs opinion on the day.
As for Ndong then I didn't think that was a sending off at the time, but there is a nasty and dangerous trick some players make of intentionally hitting the top of the ball and following through.
It's a very cynical trick and something most honest players would never do and is intended to injure rather than to stop an opponent ( which was the case with Bennett)
If that was the case then it was far more dangerous and nasty than Bennett's tackle.
As for your 4 footballers 'at the game'. I've no idea if they were or what they said because I was there , not watching on TV, but I've already said what I think of their views.
I'd be a hypocrite if I said otherwise as I've probably done hundreds of tackles like Bennett's, never got sent of and by memory never seriously hurt anyone.
Lucky me
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