Alba wrote:Look at the rugby tackles that used to be executed on Pele. In those days, these were not even worth a yellow card so defenders would just foul him all day.
Maybe you could add German keeper- Harold Schumacher's brutal foul on Patrick Battiston in 1982 world cup.
Our own James Sianga used to kick and punch any player who dared to challenge for corners.
Suffice to say the likes of Messi may not have survived such brutality
Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne
(James Russell Rowell)