My fellow football fans there are tackles that can be considered as poorly timed but not malicious, there are tackles that are in fact as clean as a whistle and the opposition player has simply made a meal of the incident in order to get his opposing player cautioned or sent off. Then there are those tackles which wouldn’t be out of place in the most violent Manga cartoons of yesteryear. Tackles that have you wondering whether the offender is in fact nothing more than a ninja in a football kick. Take a look at just one such tackle. Thanks to the excellent Dirty Tackle for bringing this to our attention. Oh yes, and for some unknown reason, perhaps related to mafia related betting patterns, the keeper was not, I repeat NOT, sent off!
So yesterday Newcastle United played Leeds United in a friendly for no other reason than to give the travelling Yorkshiremen a chance to give Alan Smith the booing he deserves and to give Joey Barton the chance to put in a disgusting and unprovoked challenge on English Starlet Fabian Delph.
Joey Barton got away with a crude challenge on Fabian Delph as tempers threatened to boil over for the second time in three Newcastle friendlies.
Furious Leeds boss Simon Grayson had to be held back by officials after £8m-rated midfielder Delph was left dazed by an off-the-ball bodycheck from the Toon jailbird.
He said: “There were one or two naughty tackles and you get upset because you’re trying to protect your players. I want to make sure I’ve a full squad to start the season.”
The ref missed the incident as the red mist descended again for Barton (pictured), whose team-mates were forced to calm him down. (Daily Mirror)
Can’t find any footage of the tackle as yet, but in the meantime here’s a compilation of Barton’s finest moments of extreme stupidity set nicely to Audio Bullys track “We Don’t Care”
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