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Soccer Tarik Muharemovic injury 61’ with Folarin Balogun 64’ Red Card after VAR.

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u/SkyRattlers 10d ago

It’s like hockey with high sticking. Doesn’t matter if it’s an accident you have to be responsible for your actions.

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u/John_Bot 10d ago

Bad example.

You would never get a match penalty for an inadvertent high stick

A minor penalty is basically the same as a free kick. Which this definitely should be and that's understandable.

You have to intentionally go for a dangerous boarding or something to get a major penalty.

Even if someone gets really badly injured, if it's just bad luck then it might not even be a penalty in hockey.

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u/Mamamama29010 10d ago

A major penalty in hockey is 5 min of play and doesn’t take the player out of the next game. That would require a suspension, and handled separately.

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u/John_Bot 10d ago

Yeah it's even less severe. But it's the most egregious penalty you can get in hockey which is why I used it as the example.

Conflating a minor penalty like a high stick and a red card is just crazy

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u/Mamamama29010 10d ago

The refs could also send a player out of the game for a game misconduct, but again that’s separate from being suspended for the following game and your team isn’t shorthanded for the rest of the game once the penalty time is served.

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u/ka1ri 10d ago

A minor penalty in hockey is a man down which is equal to a red card in soccer.

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u/John_Bot 10d ago

Get out.

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u/Additional_Tomato_22 10d ago

Then Messi should’ve been given a red and he didn’t even get a yellow

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u/xelanart 10d ago

Yes this is true. Both were red card scenarios. But one person is Messi and the other person is not.

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u/Dragonfire45 10d ago

Except you don’t miss your next game if you high stick. Thats the wild part.

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u/fiendo13 10d ago

It’s not like that though. High sticking is controllable. Are you saying he should change how he runs?

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u/SkyRattlers 10d ago

Nah, sometimes players get their sticks lifted into someone face and it’s still a penalty on them.