Nothing is uglier about the beautiful game than terrible tackles. When you see a horror challenge in a match, you sometimes can't believe what has just happened.
This makes the format of animated GIFs even more useful. A terrible tackle in a GIF is a dare to yourself: How long can you keep watching a horrific tackle being played on an infinite loop before you have to look away?
We're ranking the most stomach-turning tackles of the 2012-13 season, the ones that would make Nigel de Jong look like he's seen a ghost, in order of the severity of the challenge, and then we are giving them to you in all of the guts and gore of a GIF.
Warning: The following slides contain potentially graphic scenes.