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<blockquote data-quote="Sir Bronking" data-source="post: 249299" data-attributes="member: 197546">well as a city fan&nbsp; all i can say is that this sort of thing happens all the time (and i'm not for one min condoning it) but....how many &quot;tackles do we see and say if this or that person had connected it would have broken his legs or knocked him out or worse.fash the bash's elbow on gary mabutt caused public outcry, yet shearer and others would jump like that every week.rooney's and gerrard's (to name but 2) two footed challenges. some go unoticed, until major damage is caused...if thatchers arm would have not connected and they both fell in a heap and both got up, not alot would have been said, it's only the fact that he did connect so well, that we have all this furore.i for one would welcome video evidence being used by a forth official, with sin bins being used so that it is the opposing team that benefits not later on so that rival teams could gain an advantage. (mind you in this case thatcher not playing would be to city's wellbeing because he's s**t anyway)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sir Bronking, post: 249299, member: 197546"] well as a city fan all i can say is that this sort of thing happens all the time (and i'm not for one min condoning it) but.... how many "tackles do we see and say if this or that person had connected it would have broken his legs or knocked him out or worse. fash the bash's elbow on gary mabutt caused public outcry, yet shearer and others would jump like that every week. rooney's and gerrard's (to name but 2) two footed challenges. some go unoticed, until major damage is caused... if thatchers arm would have not connected and they both fell in a heap and both got up, not alot would have been said, it's only the fact that he did connect so well, that we have all this furore. i for one would welcome video evidence being used by a forth official, with sin bins being used so that it is the opposing team that benefits not later on so that rival teams could gain an advantage. (mind you in this case thatcher not playing would be to city's wellbeing because he's s**t anyway) [/QUOTE]

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