"If a person is violent, the other person should just WALK AWAY. Period. PERIOD."

Excellent.

Well played.

You must be new to the sport. Fouls are called ALL. THE. TIME. without any contact. Ever heard of high kicking? Yeah. Ever seen players get cautioned for reckless tackles even if they miss the player? Uh huh. You don't have to land a roundhouse for refs to call a foul. Would you like to know why that is? Because…

Boom.

Oh, I agree. I'm just saying that people saying intent doesn't matter are wrong, and giving you a hard time over silly wording.

Well, that IS pretty much how the rule goes. :P

You're absolutely right. I was being pedantic.

"A direct free kick is also awarded to the opposing team if a player... handles the ball deliberately..."

"Intent" isn't mentioned, Baudolino. Although it does say "deliberate."

Also, I tend to come off a lot more insulting than I mean to... so I really don't mean any offence by the previous post.

She didn't just not touch the ball, she wasn't even fucking close. That's a foul all day, every day.

I didn't say anything about "taking another player out."

It's a foul all day long, and one that denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to boot. It's at least a foul, and arguably a red-card-worthy one.

+1 Goddamn.

On a scale of 1-10, how great would you say 'Murrica is?

+1 Nice

I'd guess Brits would be more angry about this:

If you're going Neil deGrasse Tyson for prez, don't you kind of have to take Michio Kaku for VP?

Nice.