Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [30th March - 3rd April 2018]

BaZ87 said:
Dermot Gallagher explaining half the problem we have with diving - he's basing the entire decision on whether Mane should have had a pen or booked for diving entirely on Mane's reaction rather than the tackle on him. Whether the attacker stays on his feet or does a triple somersault, the only thing that determines whether a challenge is a foul or not is the action of the defensive player. The Palace defender trips Mane, it's a foul regardless of whether Mane stayed up or threw himself to the ground.

As long as refs keep giving decisions based on the reaction of the attacker rather than the actual challenge then they're going to encourage diving because players know that if they're fouled but stay on their feet, there's not a chance in hell the ref gives the decision.
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From the replay it looked to me there is slight contact, a pause, then Mane throws himself to the floor.
 
explicit4u said:
Southampton gettting dominated by West Ham, how have they fallen so far so quickly!?
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The rot set in with Puel, starting our decline with an awful end of season run, winning just once in 8 games, scoring a massive 4 goals. Pellegrino didn't turn it around, instead he managed to make it worse and just dragged the team through the dirt for nearly the whole season. Sadly, the board were too blind/proud/deluded to see it happening since about October and did nothing to remedy the issues. Except buy a crap over priced forward who looks about League 1 standard.
 
chroniclard said:
From the replay it looked to me there is slight contact, a pause, then Mane throws himself to the floor.
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As I was saying, Mane's reaction shouldn't make any difference to whether it's a foul or not. Mane could stay on his feet or leg could have been snapped in half, the only decision the ref has to make is whether the Palace defender tripped him and he did.
 
Does anyone watch that BT Sport score programme? All they do is argue with each other. I swear Dean Saunders is gonna kick off on it one day, probably with Robbie Savage.
 
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