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Who Doesn't Want To See A Fight?

Not shaking hands, leaning their heads into each other, pointing - this is what grown men do when they're not allowed to fight. Should we just let them scrap?

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quoththeraven says...

MisterD, the thing about enforcers in hockey is that the potential for retribution from them is enough to keep players on the straight and narrow, and often avoids the need for the gloves to come off. I am a big hockey fan and I'm ambivalent about fighting - I don't want to see people start them for the sake of it, but then again, if two players have a running battle through the game, then why shouldn't they settle their differences that way. The other thing about how this wouldn't work is that hockey players by and large respect the officials enough to stop fighting when the linesmen step in. As was said earlier, I don't think there is that respect for the officials from footballers, so you would end up asking officials to put themselves in harm's way unnecessarily.

Posted 12:26pm 14th March 2013

MisterD says...

Sounds good and I agree that occasionally a person needs a smack but there's also the potential for serious head injuries. Yes, fighting is " allowed " in hockey and fans rarely turn away but the majority of them would have it banned because they're finally becoming aware of the number of concussions occuring. There was also a time when each team had an enforcer who, if you were taking liberties, would be sent out to send a message. It's tempting but do you really want a heavyweight to go out and pound Bale because he took a dive?

Posted 5:39pm 13th March 2013

rickg (Newcastle United) says...

benvo81, don't know why you find it so hard to believe - growing up in the 70s, this was often the way, they'd leave it until someone got the upper hand, then tell you off.

Posted 6:33pm 12th March 2013

zedsmith (Liverpool) says...

Harryhotspur, if you are one of the best players of all time appearing in your last ever game and you headbutt someone to get sent off, then it is likely to be a relatively bizarre footnote to your career. If you do this in the World Cup final, the biggest game in world football when the match is in the balance and the whole build up has been about it being your last game and the match itself has been dominated by your ability and the likelihood that you will find something to win the game for your team, it is likely to be one of the things people remember you for the most. Nothing to do with overreaction to violence, any more than remembering Diego Maradona for his drug-fuelled screaming at the camera is an overreaction to coke-heads in sport.

Posted 10:33am 12th March 2013

plughead80 (Liverpool) says...

While I'd love to see the likes of Skrtel lay out Bale with a right hook, I think there's scientific evidence out there that says if you do let your anger out, it can actually be bad for you, causing you to have a shorter temper and therefore more likely to be aggressive in the future. I believe it's to do with the brain releasing some kind of hormones or whatever and the body 'enjoying' said hormones.... and therefore subconsciously you'll react quicker to try to get those hormones to be released again. If that makes sense. Something like that anyway. So actually it's better to hold your anger in check and to punish the people attempting to wind you up etc. with your skill (or just tell the referee).

Posted 8:32am 12th March 2013

benvo81 says...

"When I was at school, if two kids started fighting and the gym teachers were on duty, they'd rarely break it up unless one kid was getting beaten senseless by a psycho." absolute bollocks.

Posted 4:32am 12th March 2013

allymadrunner (Dundee United) says...

The most sickening thing at the Man City V QPR match last season where Barton got sent off, wasn't Barton's actions, it was Aguero acting like a little girl, falling to the ground as if he'd been stabbed when all he got was a dead leg. I don't condone Barton's actions, but come on Aguero, be a man. It would have looked far more impressive and the punishment would have been the same if Aguero had taken the hit and coldly stared through Barton without reacting to it.

Posted 4:11am 12th March 2013

harry hotspur (Tottenham Hotspur) says...

The epitome of the overreaction to violence in football is Zinedine Zidane. A truly remarkable player, one of the best in the world, and yet the defining memory of the man is his 'headbutt' on Marco Materazzi. You only have to type 'zid' into Google before it autocompletes to 'Zidane headbutt'. It's a real shame. I remember a couple of years ago in the Six Nations Gerry Flanery, the Irish hooker, straight up booted someone in the shins, laid the guy out, right in front of the ref, and got a yellow card and ten minutes in the sin bin. And then, problem solved. Everybody gets up and carries on. (And rugby players don't even have shinpads!) Football needs a sin bin as well. That'd just open up so many options for manliness to re-enter the game, and all the pointless bullsh*t to leave. Nobody would ever dive again if the penalty was to leave your team with 10 men for 10 minutes if you get caught.

Posted 8:48pm 11th March 2013

HarryBoulton says...

@gerard1979, I don't know about you, but at school I quickly learnt that the best thing to do with a bully is to stand up to them and perhaps take their head off, even if it results in you getting the **** kicked out of you. If you're concerned with Ferguson's "bullying" over the years then then you should be directing more questions at football as a whole, and and why they continue to be "bullied" by a 72 year old man with his bus pass and pension. The suggestion of bullying is ludicrous, anyway. Bullying see's countless young people kill themselves every year; that's bullying. Venting his spleen when a decision goes against his team is not bullying. Get some perspective.

Posted 8:41pm 11th March 2013

GUMBOAVFC says...

Dion Dublin wrote his name into legend for what he did to Robbie Savage, never was a man more deserving of a butting of ones head

Posted 4:15pm 11th March 2013

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