>Never mind who saw it first or whatever, he was lucky not to have been arrested for assault and, but for the strength of his victim's rib cage/heart, maybe murder or manslaughter.
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>Would he have been afforded the same leniency if, for the sake of argument, he'd slipped off the touchline to snort a line of coke?

hehe.. only with your words.. I can see that you did not pratice any kind of body contact sports..

On my weekend sport I never had a fight (I mean body fight).. I'm a very calm guy.. But, regularly I see man with 35 to 45y old, fighting or to argufying each other..

Try to imagine: Hot blood, transpiration, full contact, a defense guy calling our sister/mom of prostitute, a responsability to make goals and our team loosing the match that will decide the results of maybe 2y of hard work..

Do you need any extra component to compose that formula to the bomb?