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Post by wakefieldstokie on Apr 26, 2024 20:49:30 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll.
3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks.
It’s embarrassing.
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Apr 26, 2024 21:08:06 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll. 3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks. It’s embarrassing. Absolute dicks. Gnonto did it twice in two minutes, embarrassing! |
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Apr 26, 2024 21:08:47 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll. 3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks. It’s embarrassing. The Gnoto one was embarrassing as well to be fair. But I agree its ridiculous. Ben White the other week was the worst I've seen. Apart from when that Brazilian player, forget his name, did it in the world cup 20 odd years ago. Rivaldo was it? |
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Post by generationex on Apr 26, 2024 21:10:17 GMT
Isn’t this the point where Clams says he saw them supporting … oh you know the rest.
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Post by Davef on Apr 26, 2024 21:18:46 GMT
They've had 30 odd years to stamp it out since Klinsmann perfected the art.
They're not interested.
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Post by foxysgloves on Apr 26, 2024 21:50:29 GMT
It’s coached now. And has been for a long time.
Depressing but as much a part of the game as tackles and goals.
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Post by a on Apr 26, 2024 22:10:31 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll. 3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks. It’s embarrassing. The Gnoto one was embarrassing as well to be fair. But I agree its ridiculous. Ben White the other week was the worst I've seen. Apart from when that Brazilian player, forget his name, did it in the world cup 20 odd years ago. Rivaldo was it? Corner, hit his shin as I recall, yea rivaldo. Pathetic |
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Post by Vermelho20312505 on Apr 26, 2024 22:20:55 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll. 3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks. It’s embarrassing. And that cock Bamford wasn't even playing. I think it was when he played for Middlesbrough that he lashed out at an opponent and then HE dropped to the floor holding his face. |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Apr 26, 2024 22:25:26 GMT
The Gnoto one was embarrassing as well to be fair. But I agree its ridiculous. Ben White the other week was the worst I've seen. Apart from when that Brazilian player, forget his name, did it in the world cup 20 odd years ago. Rivaldo was it? Corner, hit his shin as I recall, yea rivaldo. Pathetic Went from being lauded as the best player in the world to an utter cunt in the blink of an eye. It wasn’t common them to be fair so the aftermath was scathing |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Apr 26, 2024 22:34:35 GMT
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Apr 26, 2024 22:45:01 GMT
And its that time of the season where its even more exaggerated. That and blarting in the crowd..😢😢😢
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Post by theglove on Apr 26, 2024 22:48:58 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll. 3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks. It’s embarrassing. Their teammates should kick the living fuck out of them. |
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 26, 2024 22:54:04 GMT
I saw a bit of an old game the other day with some eye-watering tackles going in, and I realised I’d completely forgotten that the done thing back then was to *not* show that you were hurt, under any circumstances. Blokes were getting absolutely scythed and smashed all over the place, and immediately springing to their feet and jogging straight off, often clearly trying to disguise a limp.
Just struck me how that bit of unspoken protocol among players has completely reversed. Once - not actually very long ago - it was a sign of weakness to show you’d been hurt after a “reducer”. Now you have to squeal and writhe like a stuck pig at the slightest brush.
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Post by Ygor on Apr 26, 2024 23:31:58 GMT
They've had 30 odd years to stamp it out since Klinsmann perfected the art. They're not interested. Spot on. My view is that the main driver has always been to create controversy. They don't want you to walk away from a match and say "the best team won", "we got pasted and deservedly so", or "a draw was a fair result". The antics on the field at times are laughable. Think of the stuff that goes on in the goal/penalty area at a free kick/ corner that almost everyone in the stadium or on TV sees but the ref does not. If you wanted the game to be played fairly, it, (in my opinion), would not be difficult to stamp out what is effectively cheating by declaring your intention up front, and then punishing offenders properly by harsh suspensions, point deductions, etc. No... they want you to walk away and curse the referee, bleat about the penalty you should have got, curse the linesman for a decision that the rest of the stadium could see was wrong, etc. etc. Soccer is about the only sport that can't introduce technology (I'm referring to VAR - not goal line technology) to improve the on field decision making. I bet they bloody hate the goal line technology because it can't be argued with - well, not yet anyway. There is nothing wrong with VAR technology, but the way it has been implemented in soccer is piss poor. We are no better off with it because the powers that be have engineered an implementation that regularly guarantees controversy. Unfortunately, I'm old enough to remember the "Hand of God". The whole world watched that one, but football stuck by its "principles" and allowed the cheats to prosper. No, there wasn't the technology then, but nevertheless, football presided over cheating, as it does so every week. The football authorities are frightened to death of the game ever being fair, just, or honest. I wonder why I bother with it really these days. And like most, don't get me started on FFP. I actually thing the game is slowly killing itself. But I also know that some actually like the controversy so maybe I'm in the minority on this one. |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Apr 27, 2024 8:07:18 GMT
Fine them a month's wages & a 5 game ban.
If they do it again double the previous fine & game ban.
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Post by nottsover60 on Apr 27, 2024 10:53:53 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll. 3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks. It’s embarrassing. You missed out the scream! |
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Post by robwahlmann on Apr 27, 2024 10:56:49 GMT
Surely the footballing authorities have to do something about the hands on faces and falling to the floor, often with a roll. 3 players in the QPR game tonight have done it, following the lightest of glances or knocks. It’s embarrassing. Should be carded after the games at least! Players falling to the ground holding their heads for something a toddler wouldn't blink at is ridiculous!  |
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Post by cvillestokie on Apr 27, 2024 12:04:54 GMT
You don’t see it as often in the MLS. The US market won’t accept it. We’ve just become accustomed to cheating. The fans could stop the behavior by booing players (including their own) for cheating.
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Post by Vermelho20312505 on Apr 27, 2024 12:16:01 GMT
You don’t see it as often in the MLS. The US market won’t accept it. We’ve just become accustomed to cheating. The fans could stop the behavior by booing players (including their own) for cheating. I remember once in our relegation season that the Boothen End booed Paul Stewart when he dived in the area trying to win a pen. Might have been partly because he wasn't particularly poplar but doubt we'd do this now. |
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Post by Vermelho20312505 on Apr 27, 2024 12:22:38 GMT
You don’t see it as often in the MLS. The US market won’t accept it. We’ve just become accustomed to cheating. The fans could stop the behavior by booing players (including their own) for cheating. I remember once in our relegation season that the Boothen End booed Paul Stewart when he dived in the area trying to win a pen. Might have been partly because he wasn't particularly popular but doubt we'd do this now. |
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Post by cvillestokie on Apr 27, 2024 12:22:58 GMT
You don’t see it as often in the MLS. The US market won’t accept it. We’ve just become accustomed to cheating. The fans could stop the behavior by booing players (including their own) for cheating. I remember once in our relegation season that the Boothen End booed Paul Stewart when he dived in the area trying to win a pen. Might have been partly because he wasn't particularly poplar but doubt we'd do this now. It should be the norm at all clubs, all the time. Why does anyone want to win something if they have to cheat to do it? |
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Post by spitthedog on Apr 27, 2024 13:04:33 GMT
I saw a bit of an old game the other day with some eye-watering tackles going in, and I realised I’d completely forgotten that the done thing back then was to *not* show that you were hurt, under any circumstances. Blokes were getting absolutely scythed and smashed all over the place, and immediately springing to their feet and jogging straight off, often clearly trying to disguise a limp. Just struck me how that bit of unspoken protocol among players has completely reversed. Once - not actually very long ago - it was a sign of weakness to show you’d been hurt after a “reducer”. Now you have to squeal and writhe like a stuck pig at the slightest brush. There has been a huge cultural change in the game. It's normal now for players to actually scream when another players foot makes any kind of contact before rolling around on the ground regardless of the extent of the contact. Any contact with the face, similar kind of farce. You notice this more in non-league football these days just because you can usually hear everything thats going on. It's really sad that it has reached grassroots level. This is also usually accompanied by teammates raising their arms in unison and screaming towards the officials, as if they are being subjected to some kind of earth shattering injustice. These are all recently introduced antics that are a real put off. I also don't like it when people and pundits describe this as just 'part of the game', as if we should accept it. We really shouldn't. |
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Apr 27, 2024 13:30:50 GMT
They've had 30 odd years to stamp it out since Klinsmann perfected the art. They're not interested. The last season or so is another level. |
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