The Footie Thread

[AmandaJR]

The game's gone mad.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Now then - why is this player tackling the player in the air by placing hand near groin?
Very strange tactic. I no longer fully understand football rules. In rugby you can't tackle a player until his feet are back on the ground.

The lesson to be learned is that after heading the ball, do not attempt to land on your feet if opposing player is nearby, because it is potentially dangerous.

Instead you should grab the player on your descent and land on top of him with full body-to-body contact and then roll around on the ground a few times, lie still for a few minutes, and then get up as if you are having great difficulty with you arms and legs.
This is acceptable.

 

[Voyager EMH]

A recent BBC poll proves that 13% of people taking part in polls are crazy/bonkers/stupid

 

[Swango1980]

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Now then - why is this player tackling the player in the air by placing hand near groin?
Very strange tactic. I no longer fully understand football rules. In rugby you can't tackle a player until his feet are back on the ground.

The lesson to be learned is that after heading the ball, do not attempt to land on your feet if opposing player is nearby, because it is potentially dangerous.

Instead you should grab the player on your descent and land on top of him with full body-to-body contact and then roll around on the ground a few times, lie still for a few minutes, and then get up as if you are having great difficulty with you arms and legs.
This is acceptable.

Well, I don't think he was "tackling" him? Not judging by the still, and from memory, I thought the Galatasary player was trying to run away from the Juve player, chasing the loose ball?

That being said, it was one of the most absurd red cards I've ever seen. He was getting a red anyway, as it was a second yellow (which is a joke in itself). Yet VAR decided it should be UPGRADED to a straight red, thus probably giving the Juve player a 3 game ban instead of a 1 game ban. To me, that is mind boggling. If I was on VAR, I'd be feeling bad that I couldn't intervene to remove the second yellow. Yet this VAR went the opposite way, and decided he needed a longer ban.

 

[Neilds]

Well, I don't think he was "tackling" him? Not judging by the still, and from memory, I thought the Galatasary player was trying to run away from the Juve player, chasing the loose ball?

That being said, it was one of the most absurd red cards I've ever seen. He was getting a red anyway, as it was a second yellow (which is a joke in itself). Yet VAR decided it should be UPGRADED to a straight red, thus probably giving the Juve player a 3 game ban instead of a 1 game ban. To me, that is mind boggling. If I was on VAR, I'd be feeling bad that I couldn't intervene to remove the second yellow. Yet this VAR went the opposite way, and decided he needed a longer ban.

The ban is the same, so not sure why it needed VAR anyway. 3 games is for violent conduct which this wasn't.