Sentence examples for violent tackle from inspiring English sources

But if you ask was it a violent tackle, I'd say no".

Ejected for a violent tackle on Mauricio Cienfuegos, Etchjeverry sat on the bench for several minutes instead of going directly to the dressing room.

Not because of Jones – this is a man who, among other things, made a recklessly violent tackle that left a fellow football player with a career-shortening injury.

Early in the first half, Holden went for a loose ball, andthe Dutch enforcer Nigel de Jong did what a player nicknamed the Lawnmower does — made a reckless and violent tackle and broke Holden's leg.

"When we started teaching here," says Ash, a driven and forensic coach who happily uses the word "clinic" as a verb, "we showed 'em video clips of rugby tackles, we showed 'em the physical nature of rugby tackles, how it is a violent tackle but the head's out of it.

His exhibition reached an abrupt end when he was sent off a brutal foul on Johan Neeskens (who would later be sent off for an even more violent tackle as some Dutchmen apparently decided to go down with an almighty kicking spree, an attitude Tottenham Hotspur would invoke many years later during a memorable outing to Stamford Bridge).

What I do not enjoy, however, are violent tackles that dominate the sport today.

Black, the Hearts player who tackled Diouf in the play (and has likewise earned a nasty reputation for other violent tackles), was not identified in the exhibition.

The match had a nasty side to it from the opening whistle, and more often than not it was the visiting players — on the back foot and obviously frustrated — who executed some violent tackles.

He calls the "manipulation" Leeds used as a tool, "a game within a game", and says of the violent tackling of that period: "In my day there was the code of the west.

When a team doctor tells a manager one of the best young players in England "is a very lucky boy" who is "lucky his career is intact" (these are O'Neill's words) you can see the depth of English football football's problem with violent tackling.