Blatter Asks For Life Ban On Taylor For Tackle On Eduardo!

Sepp "51 bad ideas out of 50" Blatter has asked for a life
ban on Matin Taylor for his tackle on Eduardo.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/03/07/sfnbla207.xml

Knowing Blatter and his tendencies to talk out of his a*se,
I'm not surprised to hear this.

For heaven's sake, Martin Taylor's tackle was bad. But
since I've been watching football, I've lost count of the
number of times I've seen worse tackles.

Quique Alvarez' tackle on Robben last week in the Spanish
Liga was as bad.

Blatter even recommends legal actions.

How do you determine a players intentions? Taylor had
only been booked 6 times in his whole career so what
motivation could he have had to break Eduardo's leg?

Blatter went on to advocate special treatment for good
players.

"The referees should be aware that if there is a very good
player, they need to protect him"

Special tratment for certain players?

Abeg when is the next FIFA election? I need to contest. 

@ Akinalabi,

Sepp Blatter is a schmuk!!!!!

I think he's got so much time on his hands to spew trumpery at every given opportunity.
Still cannot understand how that twat became FIFA President. . . . .
He is so clueless. . . . . .A Nigerian will do better in the same position.

Life ban? Not sure about that but the injury was one of a kind. Can't think of any actions against the offender though. It's football, isn't it?

D law had to be made one time or the other,because tackes were getn worse by d day. And it hapnd to be during dudu's own that its about to start! You got a prob with that?
I dnt understand y u guys kp sayn is dudu d first! Is he going to be d last? The ans is def a no,so y not curb this whole shit and lets play good football.
By d way i dnt see y banning a player who ends another players career is bad

Nice proposal, nightrider. But while one will physically, psychologically be in pain for the period, the other won't.

I kind of support tougher punishments for such offenders.

The problem in Blatter's proposal is that, how will you determine the intent in the tackle? Perhaps the extent of the victim's injury should be used to determine the punishment the offender will face.

If that is the smartest thing he has said, then it goes a long
way to show the kind of man he is.


That is the problem and I can't understand why that is
beyond Blatter.

Okay. Assuming a player nudges another player on the
shoulder and the latter goes down and sprains his ankle,
the offender should be banned for as long as the injured
player is out?

Here is a classic example.

At Stamford bridge in 2006, Carvalho fouled Wayne Rooney
and it wasn't even seen as cardable offence.

He can claim it was unintentional. We would have believed
him. Rooney  was out for weeks and wasn't fit enough for
the world cup.

Are we saying Carvalho should have been suspended for
the period Wayne was out?

The grotesque idea of using the extent of a victim's injury
to determine punishments meted out is not only silly but
unpracticable.

Football is a contact game not snooker. Once in a while you get the boot.