Oh When De Jong............

[The Sheikh]

Made his debut at the weekend as a sub...................... and still got booked!!

Love the guy!

[london blue 2]

Funny that as he rarely got booked in England. Maybe that says more about the european referees that Nige himself.

Edit: rarely red carded, so maybe not so much a surprise. He wasnt that dirty though.

[Invisible Man Fan]

Funny that as he rarely got booked in England. Maybe that says more about the european referees that Nige himself.

Edit: rarely red carded, so maybe not so much a surprise. He wasnt that dirty though.

1 in his career i believe

[Mase]

Funny that as he rarely got booked in England. Maybe that says more about the european referees that Nige himself.

Edit: rarely red carded, so maybe not so much a surprise. He wasnt that dirty though.

Yeh kicking someone in the chest isn't dirty ;-)

[Nigels Tackle]

Funny that as he rarely got booked in England. Maybe that says more about the european referees that Nige himself.

Edit: rarely red carded, so maybe not so much a surprise. He wasnt that dirty though.

Yeh kicking someone in the chest isn't dirty ;-)

nowt wrong with that challenge...

[Dameerto]

Funny that as he rarely got booked in England. Maybe that says more about the european referees that Nige himself.

Edit: rarely red carded, so maybe not so much a surprise. He wasnt that dirty though.

Yeh kicking someone in the chest isn't dirty ;-)

A miss-timed tackle/attempted block of the ball, you'll be blaming him for breaking Ben Arfa's leg next.

[Mase]

A miss-timed tackle/attempted block of the ball.

You forgot the wink mate.

[Mase]

nowt wrong with that challenge...

Don't get me wrong, Tiatto is my all time favourite City player. I love the dirty challenges.

[Alioune DVToure]

Don't get me wrong, Tiatto is my all time favourite City player. I love the dirty challenges.

Depending on your definition of 'dirty', I disagree completely. Any numpty can jump in looking to do some damage. I play football myself (only semi-seriously, obviously) and at 6'2" and knocking on 16 stone I could do some serious harm. But I don't because it's a cuntish thing to do. I'd be fucked off if someone broke my leg in a 7-a-side game so imagine if football is your livelihood and some dickhead ends your career.

There's a difference between tough tackling and being a dirty twat. Lee Cattermole and Vinny Jones are two examples of players who often crossed the line in my opinion. Mauricio Taricco was a bit of a nasty bastard too. NDJ never crossed the line at City as far as I could tell.

[Mase]

The tackle he did on the Aussie or Yank, not sure who it was but he was playing for Holland and broke the lads leg. That was a bad tackle.

The Kung fu kick on Alonso, which was funny and we all had a laugh and a joke about it, was dirty. If it was on Aguero everyone would be crying about it.

You don't have to be big built to be dirty. 16 stone or 8 stone you can still break a leg.

Roy Keane was a hard player. As hard as they came at the time. But he was also a dirty fuck when he wanted to be. You can be both.

[ronk]

Most of de Jong's yellows were positional fouls rather than bad ones. He went in hard, very hard but he always went for the ball and he was fair. I never saw him do anyone, hence I wouldn't call him dirty. I'd actually put him down as the cleanest really hard tackler I've seen.

Alonso was a mis-timing freak, no way was it deliberate.

[Mase]

Alonso was a mis-timing freak, no way was it deliberate.

Miss-timed? You're deluded mate. The whole Holland team was told to go out that night with one objective. And that was to hurt Spain.
There was nothing miss-timed about it!

[Alioune DVToure]

You don't have to be big built to be dirty. 16 stone or 8 stone you can still break a leg.

True, but I didn't really say the opposite.

However, if you've played - and I'm sure you have - then you'll know that a malicious and mistimed challenge from a big 'un is much more painful and dangerous than one from a little 'un. It's one of the basic laws of physics. An 8-stone fella is a lot quicker than I am, but not 100% quicker.

[Alioune DVToure]

Miss-timed? You're deluded mate. The whole Holland team was told to go out that night with one objective. And that was to hurt Spain.
There was nothing miss-timed about it!

I agree with this. They were definitely doing a job on Spain, which made it even more shameful that Van Marwijk dropped NDJ after the Ben Arfa incident.

[Slim]

The tackle he did on the Aussie or Yank, not sure who it was but he was playing for Holland and broke the lads leg. That was a bad tackle.

The Kung fu kick on Alonso, which was funny and we all had a laugh and a joke about it, was dirty. If it was on Aguero everyone would be crying about it.

You don't have to be big built to be dirty. 16 stone or 8 stone you can still break a leg.

Roy Keane was a hard player. As hard as they came at the time. But he was also a dirty fuck when he wanted to be. You can be both.

Stuart Holden, plays for Bolton, yank.

[Mase]

Stuart Holden, plays for Bolton, yank.

Thanks. In a friendly as well wasn't it?

[Wonderwall]

If you want someone who played professionally at the highest level and went into every game looking to hurt someone, then you have to look no further than alex rae. Horrible person

[s1ty m]

If you want someone who played professionally at the highest level and went into every game looking to hurt someone, then you have to look no further than alex rae. Horrible person

And another...Terry Hurlock.

[Ted Hughes]

Stuart Holden, plays for Bolton, yank.

Thanks. In a friendly as well wasn't it?

I think so.

That was a bad, reckless tackle, wheras the one on Ben Arfa was nothing, just unlucky.

I don't believe Nige deliberately stamped on Alonso, he's too smart for that. It was one of those things when you're looking at the ball & don't see the opponent until too late & it comes out looking horrendous. If Nige wanted to 'do' somebody, to help the team, he'd 'accidentally' tread on their ankle, not Karate kick them in the chest, in front of the ref.

He's a very intelligent bloke & would know he's gone if the ref sees it.

It was only a bump anyway, made to look like gbh by Alonso who saw the opportunity to get Nige red carded.

If Nige really did want to Karate kick Alonso in the chest, he wouldn't be getting up afterwards, he'd be straight to hospital.

When have we ever seen him do anything like that at City ? It's far too obvious & not the work of a stealthy character like Nige.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Stuart Holden, plays for Bolton, yank.

Thanks. In a friendly as well wasn't it?

My Bolton supporting mate always blamed Jonny Evans for doing Holden. I didn't know Nige had been involved in owt with him.