Re: O/T Mark Halsey
You cannot go into any tackle that is head on without showing your studs. I don't understand why people use that as an argument to say a tackle is dangerous. Studs being up is not dangerous, it is the execution of the tackle that makes it dangerous. A foot flat on the floor with studs showing is a textbook challenge. Otherwise a slide tackle will have to made using the point of your toe which is completely unrealistic and un-natural or a rule where head on tackling is outlawed and only slide tackles from the side as players run where the foot is hooked round on the ball will be allowed.
I thought Evans should have been booked for showing his studs, but that's a straight red for Shelvey no question, he was airborne at speed, Evans had much more control of his body. Shelvey's lunge was wild, look how far away from the ball his leading leg is, also you can't tell from the pic but he rakes his studs all the way up in the inside of Evan's leg, it was nasty and intentional.
RVP did show his studs but he'd played the ball about 20 minutes before he got anywhere near the Liverpool player, not even a free kick for me.
As for the pen, well he clatters into Valencia from behind just as he is bringing his leg back to shoot, pretty stonewall.
Lastly, those twitter comments are a disgrace, on a day when they expect the world to show them respect they abuse someone for being racially abused and wish cancer on someone else, stay classy Liverpool.
You cannot go into any tackle that is head on without showing your studs. I don't understand why people use that as an argument to say a tackle is dangerous. Studs being up is not dangerous, it is the execution of the tackle that makes it dangerous. A foot flat on the floor with studs showing is a textbook challenge. Otherwise a slide tackle will have to made using the point of your toe which is completely unrealistic and un-natural or a rule where head on tackling is outlawed and only slide tackles from the side as players run where the foot is hooked round on the ball will be allowed.