ESPN FC’s Craig Burley, Steve Nicol, Nedum Onuoha and Frank Leboeuf react to Internacional’s Victor Gabriel being banned until Cruzeiro’s Gabriel Pec returns to training after suffering a broken leg.
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When there is no doubt that there was malicious intent, the player should stay away from matches, and maybe training, unpaid, till the injured party is cleared to play again. That type of ‘red mist’ tackle of the vinny jones era has no place in today’s game.
You have to punish the act, not the injury. The same act can’t have a different punishment every time it happens.
In fairness though in broader society it does. The ‘act’ can be a tackle, but the ‘act’ can also be breaking someone’s leg.
Courts in broader society will apply a different sentence to stabbing someone and they survive, to stabbing someone and they die. The ‘act’ has relevance of course but far greater is the outcome.
It comes down to a sense of justice and mitigating a sense of injustice., in order to keep a societal balance and prevent vigilatiism.
In the game of football. the tircky part as Craig mantioned and as many have mentioned here, is intent. That is also a big factor.
Steve and Craig are throwing a bonkers argument here. Just because something is a legal minefield, you don’t shy away from it. And what is all this talk about intent. If an action on the field is uncharacteristically aggressive or overly aggressive let’s say, then you punish it accordingly. That sets the deterrent. How do we figure this out is the exact same way we figured out yellow/red cards. These guys make it sound like as if the game never evolves.
Edit: One of the few times I find myself disagreeing with Nedum as well.
This is a really simple one, without fail, every player who plays at this high of a level knows how to make a challenge. Sometimes there are accidents, sometimes they misjudge, but if you’re playing at the highest level and you’re intentionally going in for leg breaking tackles you should absolutely be on the hook. Having just seen the tackle, there is quite literally no way that he didn’t know what he was doing, that is studs up, full force, full speed into that tackle with absolutely no consideration beyond that. That’s the problem, more than the injury, the fact that the tackle was intentionally made with complete disregard for any other player.
Donnaruma might have ruined Musiala’s career and the Ref didn’t call a foul.
So Son should’ve been suspended until Gomes returned to play for Everton????
So much better to watch without the constant impertinent bg music…❤ 🙏🏼