Red card for Charles Breakspear today...
Spot on for me. Ticked the box for excessive force/endangering opponent.
Yes, another tick in the box for ridding the game of any sort of tackle and physical contact.
In over 1000 games played I was on both sides of tackles like that and never missed a match through injury from one of those.
The opponent was so badly endangered that, although this happened in the 48 th minute, he was running around for a further 47 minutes and then managed to hobble up to take a penalty in the penalty shoot out, this was in spite of his having been so badly injured in the 48th minute.
Another incident when winning the ball is secondary to everything and great to see a 19 year old who is already accomplished at rolling around on the floor. I wonder what my old boss, Jim Langley, would have said.