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What football (I'm European) needs is much larger penalties for feigning injuries and taking dives. There's a good reason you see players rolling around on the
by avar 16y ago
What football (I'm European) needs is much larger penalties for feigning injuries and taking dives.
There's a good reason you see players rolling around on the pitch like bruised 4 year old girls, it's beneficial in the long run to the player feigning injury. You're more likely to win a beneficial free kick from it than two yellow cards in a row, so the practice continues.
Some national football associations (e.g. Italy) start training kids to do this at a young age.
It would probably stop overnight if a player seen taking a dive were to directly receive a red card, or a three game ban.
- pierrefar 16y agoMy favourite stat is from the 2006 Germany World Cup: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/germany2006/statistics/teams/topfoulssuffered.html http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/germany2006/statistics/... Calculate the fouls suffered per game played. Italy is number 1.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>players rolling around on the pitch like bruised 4 year old girls I've never seen a 4yo girl (or boy) act like such a pillock; they cry when they're hurt and then normally get on with it. I think you do a disservice to 4 year olds.
- GFischer 16y agoIndeed.. that's one big point. Maybe there could be a special review of the game for awarding those cards after the matches... (during the post-mortem) Someone mentioned the English Premier League as an example of having a heavy stance on fouls and dives.