Ban for play acting

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As per the title, they have actually banned someone and rescinded a red card for cheating. Is this something we will ever see in the mens game? It happens all the time. Not just overreacting but holding completely the wrong part of the body. Players routinely go down holding their head and replays show that it didn't hit their head.

Some of the cheating is comically bad and yet its never punished.

Is the womens game just trying to be better while its still an easier sell?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64715588
 
Swings and roundabouts isnt it, if its England v Germany in the World Cup final and a German player does it, the media would be all over it like mad, ranting and raving about it. If its England v Germany in the World Cup final and an English player does it, it would be called "playing smart" or "gamesmanship"
 
they should manage this like they do in Union. I remember seeing a great video where Stuart Hogg was basically feigning that he was inured when he was challenged for the ball after catching from a kick. The ref was Nigel Owens and he basically said to him if you want to do that again see you in 2 weeks, this is rugby not soccer..............

Shame players in football have zero respect for the refs.................

 
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I've always hated it. The rolling around holding your knee and then running like a mad man 10 seconds later. I saw a great rule in ice hockey recently when a player got slashed and went down. The player that fouled got a 2 minute penalty but as the fouled player was deemed to have over simulated the extent of the foul he also went into the penalty box for 2 minutes. After watching footballers roll around on the floor for years in was glorious viewing.
 
There was a huge moment a few years ago with Arsenal. I can’t remember the lads name of the top of my head, Think his name was Eduardo *googles*. Yup it was.

He got banned for diving, they then back tracked.

www.theguardian.com

Eduardo walks free after U-turn on diving ban

Uefa has overturned its previous decision to ban Eduardo for two matches over claims that he dived
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Had they just stuck with that ban the diving and play acting would have stopped right there and then. VAR really should stop it as well but we know it won’t either.
 
It's pathetic and sets a **** example to the younger generations that cheating and making mockery is not only acceptable but rewarded if you do it well enough.

Needs scrubbing out the game and wish they'd start coming down hard on it.

Even as a united fan I wish they'd make a bloody example out of Fernandes.
 
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Always been an issue, but they still get away with it, even we've several cameras watching from different angles. Penalties that get given, then the ref overturns his decision after seeing VAR. He obviously see's no contact had actually happened, but then he doesn't book the player for simulation. :confused:
 
You watch Snooker, I've seen it on many occasions where the player will hold up their hand and admit fouling, touching the ball etc, even when nobody saw it and there are potentially hundreds of thousands at stake.

I hate all that **** in Football literally ruins my enjoyment of the game, tends not to be so bad in lower leagues, and I don't remember it much 30+ years ago.

I used to enjoy watching football but not these days, I'd rather watch Snooker.
 
There is nothing more naturally dishonest in the universe than a Premier League footballer. Even politicians are more believable. There needs to be a Year 0 reboot of football, zero tolerance, retrospective analysis of games specifically for cheating with 5 game minimum bans. Anyone holds any part of anyone's shirt, 5 game ban. Anyone who goes to ground after contact with a delay equal to or more than human reaction time, 5 game ban. Anyone defying the laws of physics, 5 game ban. Do it after games at leisure, employ a team of physicists if necessary. I've grown to really dislike football in recent years because of absolute natural instinct of virtually all players to cheat in one way or another.
 
MrRockliffe said:
Hot take - cheating, or playing the rules as best as you can, is part of the culture of football, and unfortunately embedded within the values of those running the show.
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It wasn't always like that, it used to be you may have got a yellow card and your opponent a free kick if you nearly broke their leg.

Its why I love to watch Aussie rules, you don't see any of this amateur dramatics.

 
One of my pet hates and I wish for something to be done about it as soon as the proof is available.
There was an article about a white card being used for the first time in Europe for Fair Play or something, the Ref should take out a white feather for cheaters.
 
It comes to a point where if I see Neymar get injured, automatically think he's faking/exaggerating it - even if it's a brutal tackle.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
One of my pet hates and I wish for something to be done about it as soon as the proof is available.
There was an article about a white card being used for the first time in Europe for Fair Play or something, the Ref should take out a white feather for cheaters.
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Use video footage after each match, blatant cheating gets a subsequent one match ban.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
It's also about time the Ref produced yellow cards when players approach them after an incident.

All this cheating and shouting at Ref's will soon stop.
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This is another one of those things that is enforced...occasionally. They cite teams randomly for it and yet it happens every time there is a big event or controversial decision.
 
ThundyCat said:
In an idea world, only the team captain should be able to approach the Ref.
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In an ideal world ref's would be mic'ed up, VAR conversations would be broadcast as they happened. Won't happen though as we'd get insights like Mike Dean when Liverpool played Spurs and didn't have a clue but awarded a penalty anyway.

Never going to be a situation where simulation/feigning injury is retroactively punished as far too many England players would be getting banned week in week out, a lot of the 'media darling' teams would be getting players suspended as well.
 
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