Seriously people, lets get over ourselves.
I know it's meant to be a prerequisite on here to hate everything purple, especially the #1 and 9 but..
As long as I can remember players ( footy, soccer gk's, AFL etc) are taught that when they jump to lift their knee/leg to
1. Protect themselves
2. Make it harder for the opposition to knock you off balance
3. Protect the ball etc, etc
If he gets done for this, then every fullback/winger will be in trouble and every team will hoist the bomb and run into the players knees/legs and hit the deck and wait for the video ref to get involved.
As if in the split second he's caught the ball he thinks "I might put my leg out and hit him in the gob"
It's similar to asking soccer players not to extend their arms when they're going up for a header.
Sometimes stuff just happens and players get hurt.
I challenge anyone to go through the tapes over the past couple of seasons and not find heaps of similar jumps from any fullback but didn't hit another player so no problem.
There's plenty of stuff every week in every game that can be seen differently by different people.
They've banned the shoulder charge and I don't know many fans that agree with that, so what next?
It's a professional sport FFS!