Geattano Berradi

I would play Bera for the last two games, I really do not trust Pontus.

Berardi was immense, Ayling was, Shac fk it they all were!!!

Pontus unlikely to be fully fit, hard to drop anyone who played yesterday, I would stick with Berra.

I was apprehensive about referee Pawson before the game as he had a shocker in the Prem game the prior week but thought the ref team did well yesterday. The only one they missed, in my humble opinion was the Huddlestone forearm smash to the face!

comment by JonnyLosAngeles

I was apprehensive about referee Pawson before the game as he had a shocker in the Prem game the prior week but thought the ref team did well yesterday. The only one they missed, in my humble opinion was the Huddlestone forearm smash to the face!
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......and the two/footed, off the ground horizontal torpedo

Salonika, my opinion on that tackle is that he has come in from the side well ahead of the Leeds player and gotten the ball. Never a danger to the Leeds player and thus a perfectly executed tackle. Now if he is a second or two later, he may be walking as his tackle is going to meet the standards for a foul with excessive force.

This is different to the tackle coming from the front or back towards the player’s legs which should be a red card with or without contact.

comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) (U9756)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
Salonika, my opinion on that tackle is that he has come in from the side well ahead of the Leeds player and gotten the ball. Never a danger to the Leeds player and thus a perfectly executed tackle. Now if he is a second or two later, he may be walking as his tackle is going to meet the standards for a foul with excessive force.

This is different to the tackle coming from the front or back towards the player’s legs which should be a red card with or without contact.
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Sorry JLA but it doesn’t matter which direction, or whether you get the ball, two feet in the air, off the ground is dangerous play and was absolute a danger to Shackleton ...a red all day long.

comment by salonika73 (U4688)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) (U9756)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
Salonika, my opinion on that tackle is that he has come in from the side well ahead of the Leeds player and gotten the ball. Never a danger to the Leeds player and thus a perfectly executed tackle. Now if he is a second or two later, he may be walking as his tackle is going to meet the standards for a foul with excessive force.

This is different to the tackle coming from the front or back towards the player’s legs which should be a red card with or without contact.
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Sorry JLA but it doesn’t matter which direction, or whether you get the ball, two feet in the air, off the ground is dangerous play and was absolute a danger to Shackleton ...a red all day long.
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The Laws of the Game state:

A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play.

Serious foul play
Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.“

When one makes the tackle, as did Tomori, in front of the player, without any chance of contact, it cannot be endangering the opponent’s safety any more than a straightforward, non-foul tackle. I believe this is the though process the referee made on the day.

Huddlestone’s forearm smash to the chin, however, is without any doubt serious foul play and that merited a red.

comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) (U9756)
posted 2 hours, 34 minutes ago
comment by salonika73 (U4688)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) (U9756)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
Salonika, my opinion on that tackle is that he has come in from the side well ahead of the Leeds player and gotten the ball. Never a danger to the Leeds player and thus a perfectly executed tackle. Now if he is a second or two later, he may be walking as his tackle is going to meet the standards for a foul with excessive force.

This is different to the tackle coming from the front or back towards the player’s legs which should be a red card with or without contact.
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Sorry JLA but it doesn’t matter which direction, or whether you get the ball, two feet in the air, off the ground is dangerous play and was absolute a danger to Shackleton ...a red all day long.
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The Laws of the Game state:

A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play.

Serious foul play
Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.“

“When one makes the tackle, as did Tomori..... without any chance of contact”
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Don’t want to drag this on. It is what it is. But really can’t see why you think this. His feet were in the air aiming right for Shackleton/the ball, hence EVERY chance of breaking his legs. When Tomori launched he wasn’t to know shack would be able to avoid him.

It’s all about opinions of course and it could have gone horribly wrong, but as it happened, it was simply a good tackle.

It’s just like kicking a ball that is 6 feet off the ground. Nobody nearby it’s a non-event, opponent’s face by the ball it’s likely dangerous play.

comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) (U9756)
posted 1 day, 13 hours ago
It’s all about opinions of course and it could have gone horribly wrong, but as it happened, it was simply a good tackle.

It’s just like kicking a ball that is 6 feet off the ground. Nobody nearby it’s a non-event, opponent’s face by the ball it’s likely dangerous play.
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Still can’t agree... feet off the ground ....dermot Gallagher agrees......just look at that photo in the attached
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/05/14/dermot-gallagher-suggests-two-derby-county-players-could-have-be/