They already do that in Croatia although I'm not sure how much this punishment was a knee-jerk reaction after the Croatian media made such a massive storm following the injury to Eduardo.

I'm not really sure about it. There might be certain cases where "intent" is obvious - for example a player reacting "in a rage" in the heat of the moment and where this leads to serious injury to an opponent there might be some merit in the idea.

But a lot of the time 99 tackles/fouls of a certain type might lead to nothing but a free kick. And I'm not convinced that the player committing the 100th - that happens to lead to injury - should be punished more.

Perhaps if clearer guidelines were issued regarding certain types of tackles that should be oulawed as dangerous - with a "zero tolerance" attitude to offenders & this were applied universally.

So then players know: "don't tackle like that or the consequences could be severe" rather than "don't tackle like that unless you are sure you will get the ballor the consequences could be severe".

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