The Times’ football luminary Patrick Barclay has a piece in today’s edition (well it’s on the website so I assume it’s in the paper) about outlawing shirt-pulling, or grappling as he calls it – you can read it here.
He makes a point that we have made a couple of times before – that to eradicate the cheats, you need to clamp down on the small offences. He suggests a sanction for shirt-pulling equal to that of a handball – a fine idea.
You can read our view on the issue here – and we also talk about it here and here.
Nice to see our work is being plagiarised by one of the broadsheet dailies…
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