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A lot of people saying he shouldn’t even have gotten a red card because he didn’t do it on purpose; it was a reckless tackle and the injury was potentially career ending. If a drunk driver kills a kid you don’t let them of with a slap on the wrist because it was an oopsie.
You are confusing reckless with careless. A red is either because of violent/intentional play or because of reckless play. Reckless is throwing your whole body at the play knowing there is a chance you seriously hurt someone. Careless is moving naturally without knowledge that your movement might hurt someone. In this play, Balogun is moving to the side through the air and needs to put his foot down somewhere. The other player is also moving through the air to the side but slightly from behind. His foot kicks Balogun's foot, changing its trajectory, then his foot moves to the new location where Balogun's foot is going to land.
Excuse me?!
Killing or causing life-changing injuries to foreigners is an American Tradition.
Granted, it's usually done to people with a dark enough skin color to be seen as non-whites, from Latin America or the Middle East, but none the less Tradition Is Tradition.
What do you mean? In the US, if you try to overthrow the government and injured/kill police officers you get a pardon. If you swindle working class Americans out of billions of dollars and save a million of that for a bribe, you get a pardon. This is how things work.
Bit of a false equivalency. Two players trying to play the ball and walking into each other is objectively not a foul. Extremely disingenuous to call it a "tackle". Making the choice to get behind the wheel while drunk is not the same thing at all
He was on the wrong side of the player to realistically challenge the ball without getting recklessly physical.
Balogun chose to recklessly challenge for the ball and, accident or not, he could have ended another players career.
Instant red card.
Sure let's talk about it like the law. If a drunk driver kills a kid they are going to get punished and imprisoned for that. If a sober driver intentionally runs a kid over and kills them that person is going to get a much harsher sentence.
Now you understand the difference between a yellow and red card
I’m sorry, I seem to have confused you with my simple analogy, let me make it a bit easier. Imagine a professional racing car driver (professional means someone who’s so good they get paid to do it) is in a race and they really want to win. They see a chance to get ahead but it means driving through a playground full of kids, but they do it and they hit one. Now that driver didn’t hit the kid on purpose but they should have known that was likely to happen when they drove through the playground. Do you understand now?
When evaluating a reckless tackle they take a few things into account like speed (there was some of this), force (there was plenty of this), and control (there was none of this). These are literally the best players in the world, they’re expected to make decisions as to what is safe and what isn’t. Making sure you don’t seriously injure other players isn’t just good sportsmanship, it’s required. If they show they can’t do that they shouldn’t be playing, hence the red card and ban.
This exact thing just happened to an England player and his tackle wasn’t as bad and he got the ball (the latter usually being the difference between a fair tackle and a foul). Even the English commentators were saying he deserved the red. We’ll see what happens to him.
No you didn't confuse me you were just wrong. Thank you for clarifying
I swear we're a few decades away from players just watching the ball saying "no after you I insist"