Studs up!!

chicorytip

Why is a perfectly executed two footed tackle deemed to be dangerous when, clean contact with the ball being made, the risk of injury to the player on the receiving end, so to speak, is minimal?
Yet, on any given weekend of premiership action, I witness numerous blatant elbowing and knee-high kicking offences seemingly go completely unnoticed let alone penalised by officialdom.

KaiserGunner

I thinks it's to do with the lack of control of your body, once you're in the air then there's no control there. Two footed challenges are reckless and there is no place for them in football.

listermint

Anyone that thinks they are OK has never been on the receiving end of one or has just watched from a stool.

~Rebel~

The tackler has to have the ability to pull out of the challenge to at least some extent. As said above, they simply lose a huge amount of control with a 2 footed challenge, potentially careening into a standing leg and causing career ending damage.

Like you said, there are good ones where only the ball is taken, but thats kind of irrelevant. The only way to stop the ankle-snapping bad ones is to cut them out altogether. And they really are ****ing frightening to be on the receiving end of.

Not even room for debate on this one imo.

bucketybuck

chicorytip wrote: »

Why is a perfectly executed two footed tackle

Because they aren't and never will be always perfectly executed.

chicorytip

bucketybuck wrote: »

Because they aren't and never will be always perfectly executed.

No. Despite the lack of technical skills evident in many players such challenges still occur regularly in games. Most appear legitimate and not injury threatening yet are invariably penalised.A deliberate stamp on the leg of a prone
opponent or the raking of studs down the shin or Achillies are offences which regularly go unpunished.

bucketybuck

chicorytip wrote: »

No. Despite the lack of technical skills evident in many players such challenges still occur regularly in games. Most appear legitimate and not injury threatening yet are invariably penalised.A deliberate stamp on the leg of a prone
opponent or the raking of studs down the shin or Achillies are offences which regularly go unpunished.

What is your point? That other offences go unpunished? Thats irrelevant. That some two footed tackles do no harm? That also doesn't matter, plenty of people jump red lights without causing harm either.

Its very obvious why those types of tackles are considered reckless to be quite honest.

Sue Pa Key Pa

It is reckless, can cause severe injury and is the last resort of a crap player without technical ability

Lovely Bloke

it's because in real time a referee can't tell the difference between a "genuine" tackle and a move like Aguero's at the weekend.

I do believe that you can be in control of your legs and feet when in the air, I mean you don't become paralysed by simply becoming airborne, that's a stupid notion, and you ARE able to pull out if you need to.

chicorytip

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote:

It is reckless, can cause severe injury and is the last resort of a crap player without technical ability

No more reckless, surely, than the Aguero challenge, similar examples of which are prevalent in the game today.

kfallon

chicorytip wrote: »

No more reckless, surely, than the Aguero challenge, similar examples of which are prevalent in the game today.

And Aguero got a deserved straight red so your point is?

~Rebel~

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

it's because in real time a referee can't tell the difference between a "genuine" tackle and a move like Aguero's at the weekend.

I do believe that you can be in control of your legs and feet when in the air, I mean you don't become paralysed by simply becoming airborne, that's a stupid notion, and you ARE able to pull out if you need to.

Of course you can move your legs - but the point is that if you're in the air, heading for a standing leg, pulling back your legs doesn't help. Your whole body weight still crashes into that person. With a 1 footed challenge, the other, grounded foot, can actually stop your momentum. When you're flying through the air, there's nothing to stop you.

theteal

Is this thread for serious????