[Football] Was Mason Holgate’s horror tackle the worst in Premier League history? Here are five other shockers

[Klaas]

Ben Thatcher’s was a cowardly disgrace, on a gentle and skilled player. Got a long ban and did Thatcher’s career never truly recover?

The most vile was sewer rat El Hadji Diouf unloading spit on Arjan de Zeeuw. I won’t watch that again.

That was the tackle that came to mind when I clicked on this, couldn't remember the player though. Remember seeing it at the time, making my blood boil, the little thug having a go at the player down even, then complaining about his card. C***.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I think it was one of the old fashioned “ he is better than me so I will kick him very hard “ type tackles that we all did on Sunday mornings when a young zippy winger started running rings around us.

In this day and age they are not allowed at all.

Rednapp thought when he first saw it that was career ending

 

[Norman Potting]

Not sure of the club/perpetrator but did a bad tackle end Gerry Ryan's career?

.....Just checked and as I thought......"Palace’s Henry Hughton which badly broke his leg and brought to an end his professional career....."

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Nah - that was much lower. Right in front of me.

He’d got the ball smack on the beak seconds earlier, and was really riled.

Right in front of me as well.

The red mist properly descended there!. Wasn't massively high, but obviously was just trying to smash the player. As obvious a red as you'll ever see from a brilliant player with a massive self destruct button.

 

[vegster]

I recall Paul Scholes doing an an awful foul against, I think, an Arsenal player. Studs up into the thigh leaving stud marks down the players thigh...obviously the ball was nowhere near...he was always portrayed as a football genius but, he was a nasty shit at times.

 

[GJN1]

The Britos tackle on Knockaert at Watford away in our first PL season was on a par with today's effort.

I think that was worse. Britos jumped into that one.

 

[Swimboy64]

Paul Clark -Lil Fuchillo
Fichillo kicking everyone all afternoon
Clark introduced and broke dear Lils leg first tackle as I remember

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

The Britos tackle on Knockaert at Watford away in our first PL season was on a par with today's effort.

First and only game where I’ve been in the front row and it was disgusting that close up

The tackle was a joke as well

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Back in the day, players like Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris , Norman ‘ Bite-yer-legs’Hunter and even the venerated Jack Charlton were getting away with terrible tackles every week . I am glad the refereeing is stricter now.

 

[Milano]

How long do the EPL normally take to issue bans? This one surely has to be more than 3 games?

 

[WATFORD zero]

Whenever bad tackles come up, these spring to mind



And that nice Alan Shearer

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Ben Thatcher’s was a cowardly disgrace, on a gentle and skilled player. Got a long ban and did Thatcher’s career never truly recover?

The most vile was sewer rat El Hadji Diouf unloading spit on Arjan de Zeeuw. I won’t watch that again.

Thatcher forearm smashed a Sunderland player in the face (summerbee maybe?) whilst he was still at Wimbledon, utter scum bag of a player.

You could see the anger and rage in his face when he did it

But to answer the question, no it's not the top 5 worst horror tackles

 

[JBizzle]

I think it's telling that almost all of those tackles are pre-2010. Football has generally moved on from really spiteful tackles, which it why Holgate's was so surprising. It's SO bad it looks like it's straight out of the Vinny Jones "90's book of horror tackles"

 

[dazzer6666]

The pelters Holgate has been getting on virtually every podcast, news article or highlights package are universal - roundly and rightly condemned everywhere. Interesting to see if the ban is extended - don't even know if there's an ability to do so

 

[Bakero]

I think it was one of the old fashioned “ he is better than me so I will kick him very hard “ type tackles that we all did on Sunday mornings when a young zippy winger started running rings around us.

In this day and age they are not allowed at all.

I can honestly say I've never flown, studs up, into a player's thigh. This was above and beyond a frustrated kick at a zippy winger.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Not sure I want to click on that…

I'm certain I won't click on it.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

The pelters Holgate has been getting on virtually every podcast, news article or highlights package are universal - roundly and rightly condemned everywhere. Interesting to see if the ban is extended - don't even know if there's an ability to do so

Made worse by lack of a public apology to Mitoma or our club. I don’t know, maybe he has done so privately (and that would be fair enough) but it grates that Wilder has said Holgate apologised to his teammates for getting sent off but that’s it. It’s a bit like one of those meaningless ‘sorry for any inconvenience caused’ apologies.

 

[A1X]

Not Prem obviously but still what the kids would call a proper "Brexit tackle"

 

[The Fits]

The amazing thing about Keane's tackle was that it was so obviously premeditated that he should have really been sent down for it.

 

[Weststander]

Thatcher forearm smashed a Sunderland player in the face (summerbee maybe?) whilst he was still at Wimbledon, utter scum bag of a player.

You could see the anger and rage in his face when he did it

But to answer the question, no it's not the top 5 worst horror tackles

Wimbledon:
John Fashanu and Vinny Jones literally ended careers and did their best to cause skull fractures.

More recently Kevin Muscat was a disgusting thug, look up his wiki page. He spent his entire career breaking legs or ligaments. Deliberately.