To stretch the point, it was not as bad or indeed as cowardly as this “challenge” by a certain former Newcastle forward on Neil Lennon during a match against Leicester City in April 1998. It is not the greatest footage of the incident, but you get the gist of it. Imagine the outcry if Barton or, for example, El-Hadji Diouf did something like this. Shearer? He got off scot-free, with an FA disciplinary commission reaching the hilarious conclusion that the then England captain was making “a genuine attempt to free himself” after his leg was “trapped” by Lennon."
A very fair point made i believe.