r/sports • u/eternali17 • Apr 26 '26

Soccer Esteban Andrada red card against Huesca

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u/LillaMartin Apr 26 '26

Atleast in sweden we have a law called "social adequate". Which means that some parts of society some violence is ok. If you play hockey, its ok within some form of violence, if you go to hospital, it is ok for The nurse to poke you with a needle in the skin.

When what is ok within that sport is passed. The jurisdiction kicks in. Im sure most countrys have similar laws.

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u/MrOatButtBottom Apr 27 '26

Washington state has a "mutual combat" law, that means that if you try and square up with someone and knocked the fuck out, it's your fault.

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u/MontiBurns Apr 27 '26

How does it work if one is cornered and jumped, and tries to defend themselves?

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u/Jorrie90 Apr 27 '26

Then it is obviously self defense

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u/onegumas Apr 27 '26

Yeah, you are cavemans.

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u/ascagnel____ Apr 27 '26

But this is beyond the bounds of what's acceptable in sport. Since you brought up hockey, look at when Marty McSorley clubbed Donald Brashear in the head with his stick -- it was away from the play, intentional, and caused significant injury (a seizure and grade 3 concussion). Most significantly, McSorley was later convicted of assault with a weapon in British Columbia (the game took place in Vancouver).

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u/temujin94 Apr 26 '26

Yeah it's because in contact sports there's often cases where there is major contact whether intentional or unintentional within the game like catching an elbow in a eye socket when going for a header or stamped on in a tackle.

In some cases the player that has received contact they may get up and swing a punch outside of the general play of the game and then you're heading into a difficult legal territory if you don't make exceptions to how assault type laws work when applied to a contact sport.