I remember when Joelinton when two hands into Gabriel at St James park last season. Gabriel was told he 'needed to be stronger'.
I also remeber when we had Hleb, Rosicky, Fabregas, Arshavin, Nasri ect - all nimble footballers with a slight body frame, everyone loved it when Stoke would body us. Now we have a massive team in terms of height and strength, and when we throw our weight around in the box, rival fans are now running to the referee saying we are too physical inside the box. 'Ref Ref Ref', 'Arsenal dark arts' ect.
Will be interesting to see if the league tries to make the PL more like La Liga to negate our physicality - I think a letter was written to the PL about our corner routine. All because we are scoring from corners. Shame there wasnt this concern about physicality when Eduardo and Ramsey were being sent to the emergency room in an oxygen mask.