Why is it?

Question

that Zidane can head butt a bloke on tv and have it transmitted round the world and get a fine or a match ban.. .but if you do it outside a pub on a friday night you could go to prison... and don't give me any crap about provocation...this was a blatant assault... the fact that you can get away with this kind of thing on a football pitch but not in the street... doesn't seem right to me. I'm not saying you should be able to get away with it in the street either but it seems you can get away with injuring someone and call it sport...people have been killed in the boxing ring, but the difference is they know why they are there, they are not going in for a tickling competition.. but to hurt people.. football is supposed to be a non contact sport... or did I get it wrong?

thee was a term they used to use which seems to be a contadtiction in terms, the professional foul... how can it be professional to foul anyone... I think Rooney was right to have been sent off and a lifetime ban imposed for such a display of assault by a so called professional footballer

Answer 1

Because Zidane, like the other big-girl's blouses that play top-flight Association Football, are paid so much that one player suing the other would be like you being sued One Euro cent for any infraction of the law.

In the past, footballers HAVE been prosecuted for assault - it is up to the police to arrest the man and prosecute him. This becomes a ticklish matter of diplomacy when it is an International Sports Personality, but what the heck - ban the game entirely I say!

Answer 2

Canadians do not want to be Americans. At all. Ever. We are different countries, with different sorts of people who originally formed them. Those first non-natives have left their mark on the societies of each, and while pretty similar on the surface, there are actually some fundamental differences. E.g., your assertion we are a "white" country. We don't see it that way - in fact, to label a people by their colour is considered highly distasteful in Canada. We are officially multicultural, and we embrace people regardless of colour. We never fought against the natives; in fact, they were allies when the US tried to invade, and we both worked together to defeat the USA. Each time. The founders of the USA were mostly ardent Protestant Reformers, who were fleeing the UK mostly, and some other European countries, for religious freedom. So, the USA was very Protestant, and while religion is less important today, many of the ideas of those early people are still strong. Canada was formed by Roman Catholics (the French immigrants), and mostly Anglicans, who aren't much different. That has also changed over the years, but, again, the background culture of Canada owes much to those early settlers as well. The USA was born in war, and had a civil war as well. Canada has never begun a war with anyone. We are a very peaceful country, who's population will fight like demons when attacked, and then go back to peaceful lives. We have a much greater respect for authority than Americans do, and live in a much less individualistic way. We remain loyal to the Crown, although we now have our own Monarchy (although the Queen is also Queen of other countries, she is Queen of Canada, a distinct title, and job). This causes power to come down from above, rather than up from the people, as in the USA. For day to day stuff, it makes little difference - our cops give speeding tickets just as yours do, but, the power comes from somewhere else, and that difference underlies all laws here. There is much more. Canada exists because Canadians want it to. Any attempts by others to change that soon finds that trying to mess with Canada is like trying to poke a sleeping lion. Watch out when it wakes up!

Answer 3

Chest butts apart, you've got it wrong ok!! Football has never, at any time been a no contact sport. Its physically impossible not to make contact with an opponent during a game. As far as assaulting people outside pubs, the trick is to make sure you don't get caught!!!

Answer 4

Football is not a non-contact sport, despite what the asker and many Portuguese players seem to think!
If the assault was serious enough the police would probably get involved though. I believe Duncan Fergusson was arrested for a headbutting incident.

Answer 5

Football is a contact sport, you are wrong. Also various laws do state that if it is in a professional game, the governing body of the sport decides the punishment.

Answer 6

that what you are writing about is maybe true in the US, Europe is difefrent my friend, most of the people do not hide behind the law for a single stupid thing, they take care of their own business with their own hands/heads or whatever is avaiable at the time. If the police shows up, it's just to make sure that there is no more commotion around not to arrest somedy unless you are really aggressive.

Answer 7

Its not always the case Duncan Ferguson was prosecuted for headbutting an opponent and got four months in jail, perhaps if they didnt dive and feign injury all the it might be easier to sort out "illegal" contact.

Answer 8

You are quite right.
however some people think that fighting on a Friday night is a sport as that is all they go out for.

Answer 9

So whats the question, CREEP!!!! Trying to figure out which more stupid ur questions or U. How dare U speak of ZZ in dat manner.
Pls when r u returning to prison cos it will do us all a lot of Good......................foolish old grumpy mouda 4ka!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

cos personally i think that the red card on the last day of your career and probrably the most important match of your life and then your team going on to lose it is punishment enough..