The levels of hypocrisy are high even for the echo chamber that is football. Sounness in particular...
Carragher
Carragher, who was lucky to escape with a yellow card, once said: 'I wanted to let him know I was ready for him, that he wasn't going topass. I wanted to rattle his bones. But my first challenge was horribly mistimed and I clattered into his shin.
'I was lucky not to be sent off and luckier still that Nani was able to walk out of Anfield with just a gash in his leg.
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Sounness
“I’ll never forget being carried off the pitch alongside Souness who had been sent off and asking him why he had done that to me.
“He never said a word or even looked up at me.
“He was not a hard man and it is completely wrong to say that Souness had injured me in a tackle. There was no tackle. All he did was flick out at me from behind when I was looking the other way.
“For me that’s not the action of a genuinely tough footballer or a true sportsman.
The key thing is that horrible tackles have been around for a long time and will never really leave the game - where a player flies in going for the ball but mistimes or misjudges it - I'd agree some rules could be brought in to deal with suspensions (perhaps lengthy ones) but any talk of a "ban as long as the injured player is out" is nonsense and would raise so many other issues. Talk of "you'd get arrested for doing that in the street" is patently stupid too, there's a whole area of law pertaining to consent which makes the sporting arena incomparable to a randomer on the high street.
Think I've made the point 249 times now that Prickfords challenge is not the worst ever in a derby. Probably not even as bad as Richarlisons. Got to be one of the worst that never even got a yellow card though. That's not the beef though. I, who said all along the he shouldn't face retrospective action as VAR dealt with it, just wanted to stop this bogus horseshit on here, backed up with non existent 'criterion ' that you cant be sent off if you foul someone who is offside and that a tackle like that is not serious foul play if it's not malicious or done with intent. I have done.
I'll let go now as theres nowhere else to go on this if people haven't got the basic comprehension to read Rule 12, the section on serious foul play, nor have the ****ing brains to admit that challenge, while not the most heinous crime of the century fits the definition of serious foul play completely. QED , my missionary work here to educate the terminally ignorant is over. I failed, but hey ho the odds were insurmountable. Like Big Turd trying to get past a six year old's SATS test.
