A new name and shame thread for a new season.

Today's amuse bouche came courtesy of Stoke's Amdy Faye, a wild two footed jump tackle that caught Mohamed Shawky of Middlesbrough around the ankle. Thankfully there was no serious injury and the ref card was immediately forthcoming.

Special mention to Carlos Tevez in the Super Cup game. He was United's best player, but could have easily had a red instead of a yellow for a wild and frustrated lunge on a Zenit player.

it's going to take a lot to beat this one. 1.13 in.

I can't believe the referee wasn't suspended for misssing this.

I missed that one, nasty.

you're not the only one. Everyone missed it. even the ref standing 10 feet away. It wasn't mentioned in a single newspaper the next day. it was all "Deco lit up the game with his ......." rather than "Deco should have been sent off for his first action in english football"

You can almost hear him saying "the ball was there (I think)"

Everyone missed it. even the ref standing 10 feet away. It wasn't mentioned in a single newspaper the next day.

They mentioned it and showed it on MotD2, though, whose coverage was along the lines of "Deco played well but he was lucky he wasn't sent off at the start".

I guessed as much, as that clip was from MOTD2. but that was shown well after all the articles were filed.

Alex Bruce starts practising for the 2012 Olympic long jump (20secs in). Luckily for the Wolves player, he missed.

Sebastien Mendez of San Lorenzo channels Bruce Lee.

(best seen in the replay about 52 secs in)

I’m going to be dull and not post a link as I’m especially squeamish when it comes to bad tackles.

I still recall Paul Bosvelt’s lunge towards Denis Irwin’s shin during United’s impressive win at Feyenoord back in ’97 as being one of the most malicious tackles I’d seen, until Roy Keane’s challenge on Alf-Inge Haaland a few years later matched it.

There can be a fine line between hot blooded competitiveness and violent tendencies with horror tackles, but these were cold tackles delivered with an intent to maim.

John Pantsil on Emmanuel Eboue the weekend before last was pretty horrible.

Not only did the referee not even book Pantsil, let alone send him off, but he then awarded the free-kick to Fulham.

I don't think Pantsil's was as bad as it looked. He clearly went over the ball, which is always reckless and a red card wouldn't have been unwarranted. But I think he was trying to go over the ball in order to shield it from Eboue, rather than with the intent to stick his studs in Eboue's leg.

ykikamoocow wrote:

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There can be a fine line between hot blooded competitiveness and violent tendencies with horror tackles, but these were cold tackles delivered with an intent to maim.

For what it's worth, the Mendez foul Ursus has linked to was not only a deliberate attempt to snap Radamel Falcao García in two for comments along the lines of 'ooh, they were a bit lucky we fell asleep' after San Lorenzo dumped River out of the Libertadores last time the teams met, but it was also the second time five minutes that Mendez had attempted to kick a River player in the back in mid-air - the first time was on Matías Abelairas, and he missed.

Indeed. I actually hesitated a bit about posting it, because it really isn't a "tackle" at all.

But as we don't have a "shocking on-pitch assault" thread . . .

Sam, any word yet on what is going to happen to Menez? Does he have previous for this kind of madness?

There can be only one ...well, three, actually. And it was the third that finally got him.

Still, we all know the scoreline at the end of the game, so...

(Okay, so it's outside the Premier League, but it's such an epic I just have to mention it.)

An ...errr, 'interesting' compilation here too. Spot the well-respected Premier League manager demonstrating his craft.

And I am the Life wrote:

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Everyone missed it.

How on earth did Deco not get retrospectively banned for such a shocking challenge? I think I might have some idea - first game of the season, the powers that be did not want the script ruined; the script whereby the big teams all have their best celebrity players on show to perform and make the Premier League - the 'product' - worth watching.

In reality, Deco should not have been on the pitch to score the goals he did against Portsmouth and Wigan. That seriously could have broken Diarra's leg.

I didn't think Paintsil's was that bad either, to be fair.

This was the mother of all out of control player evil for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WAj7xdqT1c

A master cuntsman at work.

He's got a three match ban Ursus.

Yes, I know.