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Post by yTib » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:08 pm

..when clearly not.

it seems to be the norm these days. i find it despicable.

imagine if you were a little lad and you saw your dad up to those antics. embarrassing.
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Post by California Colner » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:09 pm

I agree

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Post by Loyalclaret » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:10 pm

Wonder if they do it in training, if not when are they practing the role and scream

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Post by minnieclaret » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:21 pm

It’s quite pathetic if you watch men and women playing other contact sports.
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Post by Conroysleftfoot » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:34 pm

In this tournament the officials seem to be doing pretty well in sussing out which is a dive.

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Post by yTib » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:39 pm

Conroysleftfoot wrote:
Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:34 pm
In this tournament the officials seem to be doing pretty well in sussing out which is a dive.
i'm not necessarily on about diving; the player might have been legitimately fouled but it's the overreaction and the play-acting i'm on about.

as for diving - i would introduce a straight red for a blatant dive. it would surely make a massive difference.

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Post by Buxtonclaret » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:42 pm

Been saying for ages Player of the Season Awards should be replaced by a second BAFTA.
They must watch replays?
Makes you wonder what's going through their minds when they see themselves. :)

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Post by Stayingup » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:53 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote:
Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:42 pm
Been saying for ages Player of the Season Awards should be replaced by a second BAFTA.
They must watch replays?
Makes you wonder what's going through their minds when they see themselves. :)
Their minds? Not much in there I imagine.

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Post by Zlatan » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:54 pm

Any player who appears to be injured to the extent that they scream out and roll about should receive a mandatory 10 minute medical check to ensure they’re fit to continue. Of course to mitigate actual injuries the team can choose to use a substitute to replace them with anytime during the 10 minutes medical examination.
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Post by ClaretLoup » Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:59 pm

minnieclaret wrote:
Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:21 pm
It’s quite pathetic if you watch men and women playing other contact sports.
Great point. Take rugby where there is a lot more physical contact by much heavier players, if they are injured they just stay down until they are treated.

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Post by edlass » Sat Jun 19, 2021 9:11 pm

Its funny because when players actually get hurt they don't act the same. The Welsh lad who had the clash of heads in their first match was sat up right away desperate to start playing again. That had to actually hurt. Cut his head open! At no point was there the writhing and going "aaaahhh!"
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Post by Claret » Sat Jun 19, 2021 9:16 pm

yTib wrote:
Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:08 pm
..when clearly not.

it seems to be the norm these days. i find it despicable.

imagine if you were a little lad and you saw your dad up to those antics. embarrassing.
Agree. I was about to post something similar.
I’ve only watched about 10 mins of the Germany Portugal game and 5 mins of the Poland Spain match but the Spaniards and the Portuguese were pathetic at rolling around feigning a serious injury, slapping the floor in pretend agony

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Post by Bin Ont Turf » Sat Jun 19, 2021 10:20 pm

I'd like to see how they'd act with some of the real injuries I've had at work over the years.

I should have rolled about on the floor.

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Post by box_of_frogs » Sat Jun 19, 2021 10:30 pm

Agree with all the above. The game is being ruined by “experts” saying ‘there was contact and he deserved to go down’.

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Post by tarkys_ears » Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:13 am

The louder they scream, eventually the refs give in.

We saw it at least 2 or 3 times this season...

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Post by yTib » Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:30 am

it's especially shameless when you consider what happened to eriksen.

somebody collapses with a life changing injury and some of these primadonnas go down screaming blue bloody murder because somebody has brushed their hair.

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Post by RammyClaret61 » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:11 am

Been said above. If you are really injured, you don’t roll around because you could cause more injury to yourself.

I watch a lot of rugby league, it would be very funny to watch these premadonna multi millionaires with their thousand pound hair cut running full speed into each other.

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Post by Suratclaret » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:24 am

It really is getting beyond a joke. Of course trying to gain an advantage isn't just reserved to football but I think it's football where it is most obvious. Managers could put a stop to it but most choose not to and many refs ignore the screams and antics of a player apparently in the death throes.
How many clubs now employ a drama coach? A good number, it seems.

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Post by Hipper » Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:00 am

Suratclaret wrote:
Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:24 am
It really is getting beyond a joke. Of course trying to gain an advantage isn't just reserved to football but I think it's football where it is most obvious. Managers could put a stop to it but most choose not to and many refs ignore the screams and antics of a player apparently in the death throes.
How many clubs now employ a drama coach? A good number, it seems.
'trying to gain an advantage'. It's cheating pure and simple.

It reminds me of the story 'the boy who cried wolf'. One day a serious injury will be ignored with bad consequences.

It's all about pressurising the referee for decisions, winning illegitimate free kicks, and getting yellow and red cards for your opponents. And these people are wearing a 'Respect' badge on their sleeves.

I'm very impressed how referees manage to navigate their way through this pretty well.

Someone somewhere has to say 'enough is enough'. The most powerful people are television viewers and I've had enough.

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Post by groove » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:19 am

As soon as they start writhing around you know it's not a serious injury. When you're really hurt, you don't move an inch.
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Post by karatekid » Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:47 am

It makes me laugh when they go down holding their head then switch to grasping their ankle when they remember where the slight contact was.

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Post by IanMcL » Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:53 am

Zlatan wrote:
Sat Jun 19, 2021 8:54 pm
Any player who appears to be injured to the extent that they scream out and roll about should receive a mandatory 10 minute medical check to ensure they’re fit to continue. Of course to mitigate actual injuries the team can choose to use a substitute to replace them with anytime during the 10 minutes medical examination.
Mind you, it would be a good way to fet certain players out of the match for a time, if you were trying to quell their threat.

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Post by IanMcL » Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:54 am

karatekid wrote:
Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:47 am
It makes me laugh when they go down holding their head then switch to grasping their ankle when they remember where the slight contact was.
Yes head to leave ref no choice then actual painful spot, which would not stop play.

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Post by IanMcL » Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:57 am

groove wrote:
Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:19 am
As soon as they start writhing around you know it's not a serious injury. When you're really hurt, you don't move an inch.
That's it!

I can remember all the kicks and even a contained yelp, when they really hurt but can never, ever remember a 'natural roll' being part of the outcome to a kick. Even a shove is a minimal twist.

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Post by tiger76 » Sun Jun 20, 2021 11:09 am

In the 1st batch of games the refs were hot on this, and didn't fall for the theatrics, however as the tournament has progressed they have started giving out yellows for absolutely nothing.

And the other aspect which infuriates me is when players call for their opponent to be booked and surround the ref baying for cards, this happened in a couple of games yesterday, and it needs to be clamped down on swiftly.

Time wasting is another niggle of mine, and giving out cards as soon as it starts would rapidly stop teams employing this tactic and ruining the flow of the match.

But compared to the PL by and large the refs have done well throughout this tournament, and it must be said the players don't make their life easy do they.

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Post by tarkys_ears » Sun Jun 20, 2021 11:47 am

I've no idea why all this handshaking and "respect" of the other team comes from when on the pitch ALL they do is lie, cheat, scream etc to get one over on you. It's about time these "men" realised they're not best friends with the opposition and should treat them accordingly.
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Post by Suratclaret » Sun Jun 20, 2021 11:56 am

Maybe clubs should have a "toughening up" coach...after all, they have all manner of coaches for different aspects of the game.
Fran Cotton, Jason Leonard and James Haskell would certainly give some players something to scream about even though they're all retired - two of them for some time.

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Post by ClaretMov » Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:08 pm

No matter were the very slight contact is they drop to the floor holding their shin or face

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Post by jsclaret » Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:10 pm

Just using the word "winning" a freekick annoys me. Freekicks should be given against the opposition not "won"
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Post by Rileybobs » Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:25 pm

The constant comparison with rugby players can get a little tedious. When footballers roll around on the floor screaming they don’t do it because they are soft, they do it because they’re cheats, trying to gain an advantage over their opposition.
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Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:31 pm

jsclaret wrote:
Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:10 pm
Just using the word "winning" a freekick annoys me. Freekicks should be given against the opposition not "won"
If you are fooling an official into giving a decision which isn’t warranted it is winning in a devious sense, the whole shebang from the word go is a contest where a winner will triumph, & a loser will lose. I don’t agree with the diving & rolling about I’ve just accepted it’s always going to happen & it will never change.

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Post by beddie » Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:40 pm

It was good to see this week both Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver running away from some of the players falling over and reckoning to be injured, I kept my eye on them as play was moving forward and on both occasions the players suddenly had a miraculous recovery.

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Post by IanMcL » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:31 pm

Yes just a pity the Prem has a pecking order, so privilege wins on order.

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Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:41 pm

IanMcL wrote:
Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:31 pm
Yes just a pity the Prem has a pecking order, so privilege wins on order.
Invariably whoever spends the most wins the most, it’s not always 100% the case, you can pretty much handpick from about 4 sides next season who will win the title, I doubt Leicester will be happening anytime soon.

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Post by wilks_bfc » Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:12 pm

Sad thing is it filters down to the kids playing football as well.
I noticed my U11s starting to do it so told them that if they went down injured and I’ve to come onto the pitch to “treat” them they will be coming off for 10mins regardless if they were injured or not.
It soon stopped when they realised they would be missing playing time.

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Post by Pstotto » Sun Jun 20, 2021 11:05 pm

It DOES hurt.

If you've no shin pads.

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Post by CFS » Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:53 am

Barnes needs a lesson or 2 on how to do it properly.

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Post by superdimitri » Mon Jun 21, 2021 5:32 am

Said it before but in other sports it would be laughed at and the fans wouldn't take it.
All stems from the big cheaters getting away with it and no one standing up to it. They need to be ridiculed for it to be honest. If the refs won't give yellows like they should then there needs to be greens or sin bins introduced.

Would be nothing more humiliating than to sent to a sin bin for play acting.

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Post by Spike » Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:04 pm

The worst I ever saw was Di Maria for Man United cheats vrs Burnley
I was in the side but diagonally opposite the away fans

He rolled that much that the referee marked where the free kick was and lined up the wall. The diver was behind the wall he had rolled that far!

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Post by Elizabeth » Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:04 pm

This all seemed to start when Paul Alcock feigned injury after being touched by Di Canio

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Post by AlargeClaret » Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:36 pm

Whose the young UTD player who was pretending to be knocked out/dead last season on a number of occasions too,think he might have toned it down a bit a horrible sh1t weasel

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Post by 4:20 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:50 pm

Playacting, it's embarrassing when I'm watching a match with my diehard French Rugby supporting father in-law.

Another one is "A cynical foul, a cute foul". They've even got certain descriptors for the different types of foul on the menu.

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