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[tyqmvko]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

It was a fair tackle, but unfortunate for Ben Arfa. Hope he has a speedy recovery.

 

[yeseye]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

Was at the match and I thought it was a bit of a dodgy tackle,
we thought that it could be a leg breaker, tho not intentional.
Not seen any replays yet, but I suspect NDJ is in for a hefty ban.

no mate, it was a great tackle. all on espn said it was fair and just one of those unfortunate incidents.

How you can say a leg breaking challenge was a 'great tackle' leaves me no option but to suggest you are a complete moron!

 

[mike o]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

The way i saw it had Ben Arfa have gone in hard no one would've got hurt but he went in half hearted and unfortunately the lads got a broken leg.

Expect Nige to be even more of a marked man with refs going forward though as no doubt MOTD will slaughter him

 

[jimharri]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

no mate, it was a great tackle. all on espn said it was fair and just one of those unfortunate incidents.

How you can say a leg breaking challenge was a 'great tackle' leaves me no option but to suggest you are a complete moron!

Odd then that the ref, who had a very good view of the incident, deemed it not worth of any punishment. Also, Keegan and Butt in the ESPN studio had no problem with the nature of the tackle, after viewing several replays of it. And both of those have played at the highest level (title winning and European Cup/CL winning sides), so I'd have thought they would more knowledgeable about what they're talking about than some on here.

 

[The Fixer]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/1543/1/hughton-no-malice-de-jong" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/ ... ce-de-jong</a>?

Fair play Mr Hughton an honest gent...... end of discussion!!

 

[Benarbia]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

Over the top and reckless, reminded me of this

 

[jimharri]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/1543/1/hughton-no-malice-de-jong?

Fair play Mr Hughton an honest gent...... end of discussion!!

Hopefully that will shut up some of the ''morons'' on here who are calling for NDJ to be strung up outside Soho Square.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

no mate, it was a great tackle. all on espn said it was fair and just one of those unfortunate incidents.

How you can say a leg breaking challenge was a 'great tackle' leaves me no option but to suggest you are a complete moron!

I'd suggest you were the complete moron. Not every leg break is due to a bad tackle. The tackle was hard but very fair. Ben Arfas leg was planted in the ground it's just one of those things where any contact takes out the body and leaves half the leg still in the ground. Unfortunate but certainly not De Jongs fault.

Will be a case of the FA having a clear agenda against him and City if he gets any sort of punishment for that. The tackle that wiped out Tevez a few minutes later was far worse but that doesn't get a mention.

 

[bluemike]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

Some of the anti- De Jong quotes on here are nearly as embarrassing as
Collymore's, "I've won considerably more caps than yow" reply on talkshite.
Fuck off you red bastards.

 

[ultimateharold]

Re: De Jong injury to Ben Arfa

Balls to the naysayers, that is a proper challenge. It's a contact game, injuries are inevitable. Studs were low. Ball and man. Sorry for Hatem Ben Arfa and Newcastle as he's a class act, but if you play the game, don't expect not to get injured.