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The midweek/weekend games thread

whos fatter?

  • grant holt

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • mark viduka

    Votes: 17 89.5%
  • Total voters
    19
chancer said:
Bah. The "tackle from behind" rule is being totally misapplied nowadays.

The rule was introduced - rightly - as a direct result of Italia '90. What would happen in those days was players would tackle opponents directly from behind, catching them around the achilles or lower calf, which by definition meant they had no chance of getting the ball. This type of foul became a poison in the game because it allowed a defender to easily break up the attacking team's play - for example, it was effective against any attacker who was trying to hold up the ball during a counter attack. It happened a dozen times a game and was so negative and ruined so many games in that WC that it left the authorities with no option but to change the rule.

The rule was never meant to cover every tackle that originated from "behind" an opponant, only those tackles that went through the back of the player's legs with zero chance of getting the ball. Running alongside, but just behind the player, and tackling from there you can get the ball and is not what the rule was introduced to police. The rule has drifted and drifted and is now nonsense as routinely applied. Note that it has been successful in stopping the blatant fouls described in para 2 above.
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Interesting - I had no idea this was how it originated, too young too remember that. To be fair - surely a tackle from behind that takes the opponent before the ball would've been a foul anyway? Why stipulate the "from behind" bit? Surely a rule simply stating that "if you touch the man before the ball then it's a foul" would suffice, since all tackles from behind would fall under this umbrella.
 
I thought we were the only team with hard games, all of which we would lose and Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool had a nice run of easy games to breeze past us?
 
I thought the Everton supporters didn't give a brick when Pienaar left? Boners from space for him now.
 
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