Dan_FC wrote:
Probably nothing like what you're thinking. He's goes to ground, does dive in but to suggest it was reckless is way out of line. In fact the only people I've seen claim that are two people on here, one of which is a Newcastle fan.
He dives in with his left leg fully extended. He barely makes any contact with the ball. Because he's dived in with his left leg it means that contact with Ben Arfa is inevitable. De Jong's right leg goes straight into Ben Arfa's left leg and breaks it.
It's exactly the type of challenge that has been outlawed. A challenge where a player may take the ball, but he knows he's taking the man as well. As it was contact with the ball was absolutely minimal. If he hadn't taken out Ben Arfa with the slide it would have been a useless tackle.
To say it's not reckless is moronic. That's two legs he's broken in 2010 and there's still three months of the year remaining. I really don't know how Citeh get away with it. They will be ****ed when refs start clamping down on their overly physical play.
