Essay Sample on Violence in Football Matches

Football matches play a significant role in creating an inclusive society by bringing people together regardless team affiliation, status, and economic background. Football activities are of different levels ranging from local to the national leagues such as Asian leagues and African leagues and international leagues such as Premier league, Bundesliga, Seria A, Spanish league. Embracing such activities support the inclusion and participation of minorities, thus making them feel integrated into the society (Farrington, 2012). In other words, Football can be used as a platform to foster inclusivity, participation, and acceptance of migrants and minorities in the society. However, over the past decades, many have used football as a platform for promoting peace, Social, cultural integrations like World cup, and anti-Gypsyism campaigns. There are examples of violence in sports, for example, brutal body contact, borderline violence, quasi-criminal violence and, criminal violence. This essay aims to illustrate the moral dimensions of quasi-criminal violence concerning sports.

Violence refers to intentional use of force, physical and massive body, to intimidate the perceived opponent with hurt, injury or damage, abuse or destroy your opponents in the sport to weaken them and win the game (Bowker, P., 2014). The physical body contact acceptable in the rules and parameters of the tackle in the game of soccer and hard tackle in the game of hockey. In sports, not all physical acts that are regarded violence example in basketball elbowing an opponent while jostling for rebounding is the acceptable use of physical force in basketball. However, they are acts in the sports that violate the set sporting rules and are if any of the sports people do it in the touch-line or outside touchline of sports then it's treated in criminal laws. They include punching the opponent from the other team during the soccer match and picking a fight with an opponent during a game.

Firstly, punching someone or picking a fight with someone is more experienced in sports more is soccer games. Therefore, it is true to say that it is not sports that give rise to punching and fighting that occurs in the football matches is not unique to any sporting activities. One type of sporting event that has seen decades of fans and footballers punching and fighting opponent after scoring their opponents is football (Kerr, J. H., 2005). Football is a fantastic sport and plays significant role encouraging integration. This is because the soccer matches attract a huge fan base as compared to other sporting activities. Over the years, the governing body of football, that is, FIFA, through positive messages, has tried to combat fans and players doing such acts. In the sport by encouraging fans of the home team and the visiting team to impress and accord respect each other through the game time and after the match. Although, FIFA has imposed fines and ban on player and fans on such acts still exist. Long-term resolutions should be identified and put into practice to curb this quasi-criminal violence.

Secondly, a typical tackle without a ball is likely to make a general judgment by another player to or his team mate to pick a fight to revenge such a reckless tackle during the match. Then there is ignorance and arrogance. Research shows that some quasi-violence offenders of punching and picking a fighting during a game do not mean to inflict malicious injuring their game opponent. Sometimes the injury can be done out of ignorance, and this is because one may not be able to estimate the force of punching or tackle and damage caused to the victim. This is what is referred to as casual tackle, that is, racist implications done incidentally or innocently. Casual tackle mainly occurs when a player intersects another player of the opposite team with no intention of hurting and causing injury to the other but ends up hurting his or her leg (Finley & Fountain, J., 2008). This can be treated by the match a referee as the moderate tackle, and one can receive a yellow card for a warning or a straight red card which send the player out the rest the game and three more upcoming games.

Punching and hard tackle in football can be as result of a defender trying to avoid his team being scored by a striker from the other team. Quasi-violence crime can be connected with feelings that a player of some team possess talents and skills that the defender is unable to stop him or her whenever the player approach the goal post and want to score opponent. For instance, a celebrated Liverpool central midfielder Sadio Mane was booked for the red card after he lunged and his cleat collided with the face of Manchester City goal keeper Ederson on their game on 9/9/2017 where Liverpool lost five nil. Sadio Mane actions lead him handed a red card and two match ban; this mistake can be attributed as one of the causes why his team lost.These incidences can be reduced through avoiding such silly decision while on the pitch.

In conclusion, I am of the suggestion that there is indeed a clear moral dimension to quasi-criminal violence. In essence, the principle of ethics is how we react to each other after scoring opponents and how we handle the game loses. Consequently, we end up debating whether to regard the punching and pick a fight after the unwarranted tackle if we equate it to moral justice rather than the tackle itself. Those of the opinion that quasi-criminal violence (punching and fighting) in a football game should be given a more severe punishment other than fine and game bane. The offers either a player or fan who commit this offense should not only be fined but be charged for quasi-criminal violence and if possible evidence proves otherwise a jail term should be prescribed to the offenders of such acts.

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