"Entitled to go down"


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What's surprising in all this is how many media outlets are falling over themselves to justify Bale's cheating (well, what else is it?). The game is vanishing up its own arse when players can hurl themselves to the ground to look for a penalty under the most minimal of contact, and yet plead they are hard done by and gain the full support of the media.
 
All yellow cards given for "diving" should be reviewed by the PL. If a panel finds the offender guilty of simulation they should get a ban and the club should be fined, there should be no appeal.
Diving would stop in a matter of weeks.
 
The thing about gareth bale is if you attempt to hack him over in the middle of the park, he just brushes off the opposing player with ease......people just bounce off him.....yet as soon as he's in the penalty area he's got the stability of bambi in stilettos.......no the wonder refs think he's trying to con them........

Said the exact same thing to my mate after the match. The bloke is a freak - a tank. Just before the diving incident he was running down the wing and Gardiner made no attempt for the ball - he timed his run to barge into Bale. Bale just shrugged him off - because it was outside the box.
The bloke is a cheat, plain and simple. He has no shame in saying "if there's contact I'm going to go down" - no Gareth, if there's contact INSIDE THE FUCKIN BOX you're going to go down like a Whiteleas lass in Glittaball :evil:

What's surprising in all this is how many media outlets are falling over themselves to justify Bale's cheating (well, what else is it?). The game is vanishing up its own arse when players can hurl themselves to the ground to look for a penalty under the most minimal of contact, and yet plead they are hard done by and gain the full support of the media.

This^^^^
 
So do it retrospectively. They have all the camera angles and it can be a joint decision between the 4 officials before they leave the ground.

Any majority decision equals a one match ban for every instance of diving.



There'd be zero the next game though. And for ever more.
You seem to be overlooking the fact that all of the ex-pro's who commented on the Bale incident believe it was a penalty, and when the ref's review it they will probably come to the same correct decision.

It should have been a pen.
 
You seem to be overlooking the fact that all of the ex-pro's who commented on the Bale incident believe it was a penalty, and when the ref's review it they will probably come to the same correct decision.

It should have been a pen.

Nay, nay & thrice nay!

Bale has essentially admitted he wasn't fouled, just that contact was made. He made himself fall over.
 
when you hear people call that a penalty I feel like the world has gone mad, the only reason you might be able to is the clash of the knees, if the laws allow that as pen, I'd rather not have penalty kicks.

needless to say I'd be over the moon if it wins us a game, I'm a hypocritical Sunderland fan.

The only people in the world who don't think it was a pen after review of it are SAFC fans. You are deluding yourself.

stop being daft, ridgewell deserved his penalty then because contact was made.
 
It would be interesting to see footage of bale/Suarez etc playing 5 aside on a hard surface where falling over f***ing knacks, bet the soft cheating bastards never go down with that amount of contact.

This could be the answer. Dig up the grass and replace with cobblestones. An additional benefit would be no more games being postponed because of watterlogged pitches.

The comparison made by an earlier poster between rugby players and footballers is also interesting. A rugby player will often be hit in the area of his thigh/hip by the shoulder of a 14-15 stones opponent hurtling horizontally through the air and then sustain further contact from other players. The tackled player is physically able to re-position his body whilst on the ground and set the ball up in such away that his team can ruck the ball. Once the ball has been moved from the ruck, the tackled player will then, generally, get to his feet in readiness to participate in the next phase of play.

It now appears that a footballer, upon detecting the slightest breeze from the flapping of an opponent's shirt as he runs alongside him, feels 'entitled' (!!!) to go down as if he has been shot with an elephant gun and to then writhe in such apparent agony that one might reasonably conclude that he is having dental surgery carried out through his anus and without the benefit of anaesthetic. He is then normally assisted to his feet and one can imagine the physio having to whisper "There, there, come on, be a big boy, dry those tears, it'll be alright" as the player is supported, limping dramatically, towards the touchline, before miraculously returning to the field of play fully restored and seemingly unscathed.

'Simulation' should be made a red card offence and should be policed vigorously by referees. I anticipate that the dramatic arts classes apparently held during training would come to a swift end if players and managers knew that their teams would be reduced to 10/9/8 men during games if they were caught cheating.
 
We used to take the piss out of the Italians for diving in the 60s and 70s, the only regular player I can remember diving back then was Francis Lee but since all these foreign players came into our game every fucker seems to dive.

It is defo something that's grown and become accepted since the number of foreigners increased in English leagues.

I watched a re-run of the 1982 European Cup Final on ESPN a bit back and Brian Moore was up in arms at the way the Bayern players fell over at the slightest touch.

You see English players displaying exactly the same behaviour week in week out in every PL game now.
 
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