Two yellow cards, one for diving the other for a late tackle, meant he missed the league season's final match.
Xabi Alonso, for instance, describes tackling as a "last resort" while Javier Mascherano, who played under Guardiola at Barcelona, once said making a tackle meant he had failed as a defender.
The visitors were the better side early on, applying pressure on the Australian line, but poor kicks from Matty Smith on the final tackle meant they were unable to break the deadlock.
"Hey kid, catch!" If you grew up in the 80s, or you're any avid sports fan who knows what it's like to idolize a player, you'll recall how magically those three words resonated with a nine-year-old boy face-to-face with Pittsburg Steelers' defensive tackle "Mean" Joe Green.
This incarnation of PES feels more solid than the past few years, particularly in defence, where new touches such as shadowing and simple face-on tackles mean you don't always have to slide in and risk yellow cards and the console's team somehow bursting the net with a 45-yard free kick that you will never replicate.
The Blues shot themselves in the foot on the restart, first by allowing Sexton's kick-off to bounce into touch inside their 22 and then having the line-out stolen by the alert O'Brien, but stout tackling meant Leinster had to settle for another Sexton penalty.
Ed Miliband will seek to frame the debate ahead of the budget by claiming on Tuesday that the coalition's failure to tackle inequality means the coming recovery in the economy will benefit only the "privileged few" and so prove unsustainable.
Throughout the last decade, a huge number of high-content and/or high-throughput studies have been initiated to tackle – by means of an empirical approach – the complex and clinically relevant problem of CDDP resistance.
"So when we talk about tackling Isil, that means tackling their cyber threat as well as the threat of their guns, bombs and knives".
"Tackling health inequality means tackling social exclusion and stigma; that means treating people like Frank Bruno with respect - and how some newspapers have demeaned themselves this week - and not labelling immigrants as the cause of all our NHS woes," he added to applause.
