Sentence examples for a fair tackle from inspiring English sources

Moments later, Inter's defender Lúcio slammed into Gerard Piqué, and the referee saw that as a fair tackle.

French referee Romain Poite deemed it a shoulder charge, with replays of the incident supporting claims of a fair tackle.

"Like his friend, Billy Wright, he met the physical challenge on the field without flinching and with a fair tackle.

Michael Aylwin London Irish 32-36 Saracens When does a fair tackle or aerial challenge become dangerous?

Cazorla was chopped down in the box by Davies but the referee apparently thinks it was a fair tackle!

The [Zamora] incident was just one of those things: he made a fair tackle and certainly didn't mean to break Bobby's leg".

Henry has attracted a reputation as a ruthless hard man in an uncompromising side: Newcastle's Joey Barton was roughed up in August and Bobby Zamora was sidelined with a broken leg by an ultimately fair tackle three weeks ago.

There will always be individual players who are brilliant, but the marvel of a crunching (but fair) tackle from a hardy defender, or the midfielder who does the simple things well is being replaced by step-overs and shots from the halfway line.

26 min: Rozehnal makes a nice strong fair tackle on Aurelio, who squeals pathetically as he goes down.

It was a hard but fair tackle.

Liverpool defender Jon Flanagan described his crunching challenge on former team-mate Raheem Sterling as "just business". Only 30 seconds into Wednesday's 3-0 victory for Liverpool over Manchester City, Flanagan knocked the £49m signing off his feet with a strong but fair tackle.