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Daft tackle but I still think he's brilliant. He's given us a right flank to speak of, for the first time since the Ronaldo was still thin (probably). Forgiven if he comes back and plays the same way as he lately :)

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If this had been Simpson the level of fury would be epic, Debuchy has been rash in the past and yeah we can say years ago it would have been an applauded tackle. However its not years ago its the modern game and he as well as everyone else knows that is a straight red all day, he should just be counting his lucky stars he took the ball and non of the man.

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Did we look likely to win with him on the field? Everything I've read suggests not.

 

I doubt it but we wouldn't have been hanging on as badly for the last 20 minute.  Looked like a nothing game heading now here but 0-0 until his moronic challenge.  Cost us a probable point and him for several games.

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I'm not sure if there's a rule against 2-footed challenges as such (might be dangerous play, which 2-footed tackles are universally now deemed as) but I 100% think a player should never go in with 2 feet and they should be sent off if they do so.  It's dangerous and needless.

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Not really even the modern game is it, any more. Someone in here said it wouldn't be a foul 25 years ago. When Debuchy was 3 years old. :lol:

 

Pre Sky he'd have got away with it. That wasn't the point though. The point was how the rules have changed to take out most contact. There used to be players that would complain to the ref. when getting booked that it was their first foul. You'd often see them gesticulating first one. That's because you would get away with more. If somebody played the ball and not the player it was a good tackle. You could slide tackle from behind and take the ball, not even a free kick.

 

And it's because of this less physical game we have today that the divers have become more common. You'd get the odd one but they were very few and far between. But there was little point in it because more was allowed. And if it did take place, then,  to risk being jingoistic,  it would be a foreign player doing it, and we'd be seeing it at International level, never in a domestic game.

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I don't have any issue with your point in that case, just saying that players these days literally have no excuse. That kind of tackle has never been okay in their entire playing careers.

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I'm 43 started playing 11 a side at 7 years old, that kind of tackle has never been acceptable, not ever.

 

Of course it has.

Tommy Smith, Ron Harris and the like made careers from them kind of tackles.Playing the ball without touching the opponent; nobody would bat an eyelid 20 or 30 years ago.Sliding through players to get the ball,  as long as the ball was played, nobody batted an eyelid, indeed them tackles were even applauded.  No room for it in this day and age though and that's why I agree he had to go.

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Like Cabaye he gets frustrated in games and is liable to have a nibble.

I don't think the two are similar at all. Debuchy is an aggressive player at all times and I think he would have made that tackle every time while Cabaye is more petulant and starts kicking when things aren't going well

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