[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=48212.msg1460865#msg1460865 date=1326148983]
It's not really the two-footedness that's the problem.
Consider the movement you have to make to get both feet going flying forwards towards the ball whilst running. It's similar to that of a long-jumper - it requires an initial upward lunge. In football terms this means the player will be coming in from a higher angle than the traditional tackle, with studs showing. They are also coming in at greater pace, due to the lack of friction with the ground, meaning a greater force or impact on whatever you impact upon. There is no doubt a long of skill in hitting your target in all of this, but there is also a greater amount of chance at play here with some serious consequences at risk. None of which face the player making the tackle.
Kompany should feel a little hard done by, but if it helps implant the idea that these sort of tackles are dangerous, which I believe they are, then the game as a whole will be safer and I don't think that's a bad thing at all really. The sounds and sights of bones breaking is especially haunting.
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Good point again. I agree with pretty much all of it.
It doesn't change my stance about the tackle as a whole though, I believe professional footballers can slide tackle using both feet & time it correctly except in the most extreme of circumstance, & in that circumstance rules ain't gonna matter anyway.
We aren't gonna agree on this, but I like the way you've debated it, if I wasn't so bloody minded I may have been persuaded.
It's not really the two-footedness that's the problem.
Consider the movement you have to make to get both feet going flying forwards towards the ball whilst running. It's similar to that of a long-jumper - it requires an initial upward lunge. In football terms this means the player will be coming in from a higher angle than the traditional tackle, with studs showing. They are also coming in at greater pace, due to the lack of friction with the ground, meaning a greater force or impact on whatever you impact upon. There is no doubt a long of skill in hitting your target in all of this, but there is also a greater amount of chance at play here with some serious consequences at risk. None of which face the player making the tackle.
Kompany should feel a little hard done by, but if it helps implant the idea that these sort of tackles are dangerous, which I believe they are, then the game as a whole will be safer and I don't think that's a bad thing at all really. The sounds and sights of bones breaking is especially haunting.
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Good point again. I agree with pretty much all of it.
It doesn't change my stance about the tackle as a whole though, I believe professional footballers can slide tackle using both feet & time it correctly except in the most extreme of circumstance, & in that circumstance rules ain't gonna matter anyway.
We aren't gonna agree on this, but I like the way you've debated it, if I wasn't so bloody minded I may have been persuaded.
