Tackle (football move) boots. Referees are encouraged to at the very least caution (yellow card) players who commit such challenges. Additionally, an illegal tackle which is also a professional foul is considered misconduct. The most spectacular form of tackle in association football is the slide tackle, wherein a tackler slides, leg extended, along the ground, aiming to hit the ball away. This form of tackle carries a high risk of committing a foul. "Diving" is association football involves tackled players exaggerating the physicality of tackles, so as to gain favourable decisions from the referee. In Australian rules football, the move commonly described as
A Sport and a Pastime of Autun in Burgundy. The book is generally regarded by critics as a modern classic. In "The New York Times Book Review", novelist and critic Reynolds Price wrote, "Of living novelists, none has produced a novel I admire more than "A Sport and a Pastime" ... it's as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know." The critic and biographer Adam Begley, in "The New York Times Magazine", called it "extraordinary ... The book feels utterly true." After Salter's death in 2015, the novel has continued to receive critical attention. In 2017, Sarah Hall (writing for "The Guardian") observed that: