The tackle just before by Adams on Hirst was a shocker too
However, the first game of the 1994 season at Liverpool and Palmer was sent off in the first minutes for a bad tackle on Jan Molby - of course Steve McMahon did similar tackles every week and got away with it because he played for a big team - has ever been thus
It wasn't until the 1998 world cup that the rules changed but sadly only after many careers like Van Basten and Hirst had been cut short by anti-football thuggery