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This week’s roundup also features all 100 Roland Garros wins for Rafa Nadal, rejection from the pool gods and Cliff Thorburn

1) While cynical fouls to deny a goalscoring opportunity should be vehemently discouraged as being against the spirit of the game, they also happen to be one of the entertaining things in football. Step forward Bournemouth’s Chris Mepham, who managed to mis-control a pass, turn slower than milk, and rugby tackle Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo to the ground on Saturday, with the defender shown a red card in the crucial semi-final second leg of their Championship play-off. Mepham, formerly of Brentford, was serenaded off the pitch by the home supporters: “He’s one of our own!” Depleted Bournemouth would go on to lose 3-2 on aggregate, with Brentford set to face Swansea at Wembley in the final this weekend.

Next, we recount Natiya Pantsulaya’s spectacular bodycheck/WWE move on Northern Ireland’s Sarah McFadden, when it seemed a lot easier for the Ukrainian midfielder to just play the ball. Arsenal’s Willie Young chops down Paul Allen in the 1980 FA Cup final and receives just a yellow card. This scissor-lunge, when Wolfsburg were losing 2-1 to Hoffenheim back in March, is quite the mood from Paulo Otávio. Real Madrid’s Federico Valverde earned the man-of-the-match award in the Spanish Super Cup for his scything ‘tackle’ on Álvaro Morata, then of Atlético Madrid in the final minutes of extra time. And who can forget Ole Gunnar Solskjær running half the length of the pitch to hack down Newcastle’s Rob Lee, who was clean through against Peter Schmeichel?

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/may/27/cynical-fouls-champions-league-final-best-bits-and-liz-cambage-dunking

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