Classic Football Assaults

Private: Classic Football Assaults #15: Scott Parker Launches Joe Cole Into Space (Video)
The ferociousness of this tackle is somewhat accentuated by this video that plays the challenge on repeat to a perfect soundtrack. Vote...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #14: Ryan Shawcross Maims Aaron Ramsey (Video)
It seems apt to mark the meeting of Ryan Shawcross and Aaron Ramsey this afternoon by recalling the horrific challenge that the...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #13: John Hartson Kicks Team-Mate Eyal Berkovic In the Head (Video)
This infamous incident may well happen at training grounds up and down the land, although probably not, however this assault was caught...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #12: Battle Of Santiago (Video)
More a series of assaults rather than a one off mauling. This game between Italy and Chile went down in footballing folklore...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #11: Kung-Fu Master Eric Cantona Takes Offence Then Takes Aim (Video)
Eric Cantona is of course a footballing legend in the very truest sense of the word. He is also, it seems, pretty...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #10: Arsenal Striker Eduardo GBH’d By Martin Taylor
At the time Martin Taylor, a footballer with questionable ability, claimed that there was no malice in his challenge on one time...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #9: Zinedine Zidane Gets Angry (Video)
Quite possibly one of the most famous footballing moments in the entire history of the game. Apparently the two have long since...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #8: Ben Thatcher Lets His Elbow Do The Talking (Video)
Anyone who remembers this incident still gets cold sweats, imagine how Pedro Mendes feels ! Seriously this is shocking, Ben Thatcher is...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #7: Team-Mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer Decide to Punch Each Other
No one on Planet Earth likes Lee Bowyer. There are Amazonian tribes who have as yet not been in contact with the...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #6: Roy Keane Wants Revenge (Video)
Probably the most famous tackle/assault of the Premier League era a deliberate leg breaker from Mr. Roy Keane out for retribution following...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #5: The Butcher of Bilbao Breaks Diego Maradona’s Ankle (Video)
Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga is nowhere near as a catch a name as “The Butcher of Bilbao” and this challenge on a very...
Private: Classic Football Assaults #4: Cameroon Vs Claudio Caniggia (Video)
This has lived long in the memory and is just as brutal as it was when it first occurred twenty years ago....