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I find it hard to like Portugal, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. They spend so much time diving and rolling around on the floor like big fething softies that it detracts from the occasionally breath-taking football.
I really wanted NK Dons to win - they started the game really well.
Albatross wrote:I find it hard to like Portugal, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. They spend so much time diving and rolling around on the floor like big fething softies that it detracts from the occasionally breath-taking football.
Tell me about it..all you have to do is breath on an Italian and he's goes down in agony. Same with Ranaldo. Is it just me or does this faking happen more in world cup than in the league play. I haven't seen a lot of it to be honest, hardly ever in the EPL.
The 2006 Zidane "chest butt" was a perfect example. That Italian player that received the chest butt acted like he got shot with a shotgun. dropping to the ground and rolling in agony....
They really need to do something about the theatre antics.
GG
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Albatross wrote:I find it hard to like Portugal, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. They spend so much time diving and rolling around on the floor like big fething softies that it detracts from the occasionally breath-taking football.
Tell me about it..all you have to do is breath on an Italian and he's goes down in agony. Same with Ranaldo. Is it just me or does this faking happen more in world cup than in the league play. I haven't seen a lot of it to be honest, hardly ever in the EPL.
The 2006 Zidane "chest butt" was a perfect example. That Italian player that received the chest butt acted like he got shot with a shotgun. dropping to the ground and rolling in agony....
They really need to do something about the theatre antics.
GG
instead of cards they should start a point system to grade the acting of the antics. We could get an awards show going and everything.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Albatross wrote:I find it hard to like Portugal, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. They spend so much time diving and rolling around on the floor like big fething softies that it detracts from the occasionally breath-taking football.
Tell me about it..all you have to do is breath on an Italian and he's goes down in agony. Same with Ranaldo. Is it just me or does this faking happen more in world cup than in the league play. I haven't seen a lot of it to be honest, hardly ever in the EPL.
The 2006 Zidane "chest butt" was a perfect example. That Italian player that received the chest butt acted like he got shot with a shotgun. dropping to the ground and rolling in agony....
They really need to do something about the theatre antics.
GG
There IS a fair bit of play-acting, but it is largely restricted to players from Mediterranean and Latin-American countries. However it has started filtering through into the footballing culture of the UK. We were once known for our honesty and fair play, but now you have British kids taking a slight knock and hitting the deck, rolling around in mock-agony - whilst playing in the bloody park with their mates! Crazy.
They CAN be booked for diving, or 'simulation' as they refer to it. That's quite a rare occurence, though. Certainly rarer than being booked for a bad challenge when you didn't even TOUCH the offending player. See below for more details.
That was taken from last night's match. Shocking, although before that there were some terrible theatrics on display from several Brazilian players, Lucio in particular.
Albatross wrote:
That was taken from last night's match. Shocking, although before that there were some terrible theatrics on display from several Brazilian players, Lucio in particular.
Well, after a few years, all professional athletes will be required to have at the very least a bachelor's degree in drama with a minor in women's studies.
Not sure, wasn't it his second booking rather than a 'straight red'? They can't rescind a yellow card, only a straight red. Because it was a red card resulting from two bookings in the match, it's a bit of a dodgy issue. It's likely that he won't recieve much (if any) of a ban.
It actually looks like his shoulder hits the guy's (Keita?) jaw, so it's not entirely cut-and-dried. It was a shocking over-reaction though.
Cheating like thats ridiculous, if an English player dived like that i would be ashamed, id rather lose a match than win and look like a girl.
Thats why i cant bring myself to like the Argies, sneaky little Diego. The last laugh will be mine however as his addiction to narcotics will no doubt make his heart explode. Chortle!
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North Korea were reasonably competitive in the first half and a complete non-entity in the second. I suspect they completed their escape tunnel at half time, and most of the players on the field in the second half were actually crudely made dummies.
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Funny enough the match was followed in South Korea by millions with in some places the stock of adult diapers being sold out so they could (I guess) wet themselves freely while laughing at the guys from the North receiving 7 goals.
I´ve seen images from little NKorean kids crying and saying that they wanted to kill themselves at the humiliation. Go figure.
M.
But this is what happens when you try to play football (and the NKoreans tried) nowadays, so far it has been better for the teams to play italian style, 100 guys on defense and one to "die" on the offense and hope for a penalty kick in minute 89.
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Albatross wrote:We were once known for our honesty and fair play, but now you have British kids taking a slight knock and hitting the deck, rolling around in mock-agony - whilst playing in the bloody park with their mates! Crazy.
Surely nobody does this? Can't think of a better way to be ignored when you do finally break an ankle.
Its one of the reasons I'd love video review in matches as it'd stop the nonsense almost overnight.
Still shocks me that there isn't something in place that would allow FIFA or local FA's to punish folks for this kinda behaviour after the match as well. (and If there is, they blinkin well aren't using it enough.)
That would stop in pretty quickly as well if you knew you'd get a ban afterwards.
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sebster wrote:North Korea were reasonably competitive in the first half and a complete non-entity in the second. I suspect they completed their escape tunnel at half time, and most of the players on the field in the second half were actually crudely made dummies.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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generalgrog wrote:The 2006 Zidane "chest butt" was a perfect example. That Italian player that received the chest butt acted like he got shot with a shotgun. dropping to the ground and rolling in agony....
Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Its one of the reasons I'd love video review in matches as it'd stop the nonsense almost overnight.
Still shocks me that there isn't something in place that would allow FIFA or local FA's to punish folks for this kinda behaviour after the match as well. (and If there is, they blinkin well aren't using it enough.)
That would stop in pretty quickly as well if you knew you'd get a ban afterwards.
Absolutely!
I don't think they should necesarily use replay during the game, but maybe during halftime, and definately after the game to overturn stupid cards and penalize fakers by handing out postgame red cards for simulation.
Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Its one of the reasons I'd love video review in matches as it'd stop the nonsense almost overnight.
Still shocks me that there isn't something in place that would allow FIFA or local FA's to punish folks for this kinda behaviour after the match as well. (and If there is, they blinkin well aren't using it enough.)
That would stop in pretty quickly as well if you knew you'd get a ban afterwards.
Absolutely!
I don't think they should necesarily use replay during the game, but maybe during halftime, and definately after the game to overturn stupid cards and penalize fakers by handing out postgame red cards for simulation.
GG
They already do that in most domestic leagues. I'm not really sure how it works in the world cup, but players have been punished after the match for incidents the referee didn't pick up on.
That tends to be for extreme offences though, such as off the ball violence or malicious tackling that the ref somehow missed. They have never, to my knowledge, come down on simulation even when it is blatant and game-changing.
Look out Portugal! NK is going to send you a bil for $75,000,000,000,000!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Soup and a roll wrote:That tends to be for extreme offences though, such as off the ball violence or malicious tackling that the ref somehow missed. They have never, to my knowledge, come down on simulation even when it is blatant and game-changing.
Perhaps not in the world cup but they do it in the Premiership all the time. Teams can appeal a card and it gets reviewed, tackles given wrongly where the 'victim' has dived are often overturned.
@Whatwhat: Truetrue. To my knowledge it is always teams/players trying to avoid unfair punitive action rather than players being reprimanded after the event.
Guilliman and the Ultramarines are like Manchester United, everyone hates them because they are so awesome!