Footballers squaring up

[MikeH72]

Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin.

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

Stupid booking for those involved most of the time. If they can stop themselves sparking each other, they can stop themselves going head to head for no real reason.

 

[The Cowboy]

Proper mince. If you're going to do it, do it properly.

 

[Ashtonian]

should follow suit of the ice hockey and have mandatory fights every game and a sin bin so they sit off for 5 minutes afterwards.

 

[AndyC]

should follow suit of the ice hockey and have mandatory fights every game and a sin bin so they sit off for 5 minutes afterwards.

Fighting isn't mandatory in ice hockey Ash, and when it happens, it's nearly always between two guys recognised as the relative teams enforcers.

There are occasionally pre-determined fights, sometimes right off the first face-off, but again these are 99 times out a 100 between enforcers and then the rest of the game goes off without incident.

The kind of neanderthal behaviour of a yesteryear is very rare these days, even in the NHL.

The most infamous here in the UK was a full-blown bench clearance in February 2001 in a game between the Nottingham Panthers and arch-rivals Sheffield Steelers... see the link below...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioyQi-rb1DM

 

[royalblue66]

Proper mince. If you're going to do it, do it properly.

Is right.

 

[degsy]

The way it's going Footy will be a total none contact sport, like touch rugby...which will be the day I pack it in.

 

[Ashtonian]

Fighting isn't mandatory in ice hockey Ash, and when it happens, it's nearly always between two guys recognised as the relative teams enforcers.

There are occasionally pre-determined fights, sometimes right off the first face-off, but again these are 99 times out a 100 between enforcers and then the rest of the game goes off without incident.

The kind of neanderthal behaviour of a yesteryear is very rare these days, even in the NHL.

The most infamous here in the UK was a full-blown bench clearance in February 2001 in a game between the Nottingham Panthers and arch-rivals Sheffield Steelers... see the link below...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioyQi-rb1DM

Perhaps it may not be a necessity in the game but form an outsider perspective, when Pro evo remove diving from their game because of the unsportsmanlike connotations and EA sports still add a button to instigate fights in their NHL games, it gives a bit of a impression it is a more regular occurance haha

I suggested the comparison in jest tbh, seeing as though footballers are mainly big girls blouses at the best of times, imagine if one of them actually hit the other!

 

[GwladysPhil]

Let it get more physical.

Too many scrotes think they're nails because they know the ref is their protection

 

[Brendan Janus]

Let it get more physical.

Too many scrotes think they're nails because they know the ref is their protection

 

[Milk]

Let it get more physical.

Too many scrotes think they're nails because they know the ref is their protection

 

[Kurt.]

I'm sure that tough guy Jordan Henderson will soon sort everybody out.

 

[The Cowboy]

The way it's going Footy will be a total none contact sport, like touch rugby...which will be the day I pack it in.

Huh?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Proper mince. If you're going to do it, do it properly.

Was at a sportsman's dinner a fair few years ago now with Duncan McKenzie as the guest speaker, he auctioned a framed pic of this signed by Ferguson, and I was the highest bidder, it now takes pride of place on my lads bedroom wall.

 

[SailorBlue]

You need to check out the Franny Lee and Norman Hunter scrap from the Leeds & Derby match in the 70s.

Cracking fight. Should be on an old MOTD footage somewhere.