Soccer is a savage sport where we allow players to beat the shit out of each other as a matter of course.

Red card and immediate expulsion from the game with the team playing a person short. She'll miss the next game and probably be suspended for an additional number of games after the incident is reviewed by league officials.

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)

5. Don't understand why this kind of fighting is OK for hocky and not other sports

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:14 PM

Mar 2012

Snake Alchemist

(3,318 posts)

11. Why is it okay for boxing and not other sports? nt

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:35 PM

Mar 2012

ThomThom

(1,486 posts)

13. I think you got that backwards, why is it ok for hockey, other sports do the right thing

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:43 PM

Mar 2012

fighting is bad sportsmanship, plain and simple
we need to teach our kids good sportsmanship
I am a big pro sports fan, football, baseball, basketball but I never watch hockey because of the silly fighting
actually watching the Nationals and the Mets now

tkmorris

(11,138 posts)

7. This sort of thing happens EVERY DAY in high school sports

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:22 PM

Mar 2012

It's unfortunate and needs to be addressed but I don't know why you singled out this partic...

OHHhhh. I see. The young lady who lost her temper is black, and the young lady who was attacked is as white as the driven snow. Teeheehee, I see what you did there. You are SUCH a clever little devil!

Codeine

(25,586 posts)

8. Fights happen in sports.

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:30 PM

Mar 2012

Even the best-paid and most professional of sports players can let their emotions get the better of them and end up in fisticuffs. Watch a few games at the top level and you'll see it.

aikoaiko

(34,185 posts)

14. Red card and expulsion for White team player

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:59 PM

Mar 2012

The blue player only committed a direct penalty foul with no yellow card.

Xithras

(16,191 posts)

15. Hell, that's nothing. I once watched a 6 girl boxing match at my daughters HS soccer game.

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 03:26 PM

Mar 2012

There had been escalating tensions between them throughout the game, and a couple of them had already been yellowcarded for contact. One bad contact later, it erupted into a huge fistfight between all six. All were redcarded, and two of the girls on my daughters team were permanently ejected from the school soccer team. Not just for the season...they were sophmores and were permanently banned from league play (one of the girls ripped a brow piercing from another player, and the second kicked the bleeding girl in the head while whe was writhing on the ground).

Soccer is a very physical sport with lots of contact between players, and tempers can flare. These kinds of fights are pretty common.

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