Well after all his gobbing off about the Shawcross tackle, Arsene Wenger has been characteritically quiet about Campbell's tackle in the Hull game yesterday. Now is it just me, or were the two tackles remarkably similar?
Like Shawcross's challenge, Campbell's tackle was utterly committed and ran the risk of breaking a leg if marginally mistimed or if the opposing player had the skill to move the ball in time. Of course Ramsey had the ability that the Hull player lacked. Campbell connected with the ball and so all was well, but had he been a milisecond earlier or later, the consequences could have been awful.
I am not criticising Campbell here - it was a brilliant tackle. But it illustrates perfectly Wenger's myopia. Admit you were wrong you French tosser!
Wasn't you that took Grumpy and Aycliffe to task was it?
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ReplyDeleteAlong with TMFD, Aycliffe is the best poster over at the org and Sarasota will get short change from the rest of the org if he takes on Cliffe. Don't mind him upsetting Mr King though!
ReplyDeleteSarasota has the most georgeous white sand.
ReplyDeleteI must say, THFD can be frightfully pompous sitting on his Org throne allowing his all licensed fool Grumpy to say what ever he will, but taking umbrage when others have the audacity to challenge his weighty proclamations. I am sure he will have a contact at the club who will confirm that he is right and Sarasota is misguided and misinformed sooner or later.
But does Aycliffe deserve such a verbal assault, merely for commenting on Derby's appalling spelling and grammar? Seems harsh to me.
I would love to hear Wenger's reaction if one of his players were to ever break someone's leg.
ReplyDeleteThe reason it wasnt a dangerous tackle was precisely because it was well timed. Something Shawcross will hopefully learn in his career. The timing is the difference between a good and bad tackler.
ReplyDeleteYes, Campbell is in his mid thirties, Shawcross still in his early twenties and learning his trade. The issue is not the quality of the challenge but the nature of the challenge. Had Campbell got it very slightly wrong, as Shawcross did, then it could well have resulted in a broken leg. Wenger said that there was no place in the game for the sort of challenge that Shawcross made; well that would rule out the Campbell challenge too because it was very similar, with all the player's weight "thrown" into the challenge. Yes the timing was very marginally better but that was the only difference, and at the speed of the Prem anybody can mistime a challenge by a milisecond.
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