Football Banter Thread (2nd Half)

fishfly said:
Guardiola literally jumped a sinking ship... Bernado Silva leaving, Rodri leaving... and here comes Guardiola saying they must keep the standards up :unsure:
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Do you perhaps think he knows something about the 115 charges and doesn't want to be there when/if something is done?
 
thestaggy said:
Do you perhaps think he knows something about the 115 charges and doesn't want to be there when/if something is done?
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There was talk of him leaving before last season already.

His wife left him because of his focus on his work; apparently they have got back together again and I imagine him leaving City was one of the conditions.

Ah, true love - gotta love it :)
 
how dare he not have eyes in the back of his head to see who pushed him - pathetic :ROFL:
 
_kabal_ said:
how dare he not have eyes in the back of his head to see who pushed him - pathetic :ROFL:
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Then he has the awareness of a sea sponge, because the keeper's hand was on him before the corner kick and there wasn't another PSG player around him.

Anyway, that sums up one of the problems with modern football, how players are coached to go down when there is any sort of contact. It also illustrates why this will be so hard to root out of the game, when a player just collapses under the slightest touch without even knowing who touched him.
 
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thestaggy said:
Then he has the awareness of a sea sponge, because the keeper's hand was on him before the corner kick and there wasn't another PSG player around him.

Anyway, that sums up one of the problems with modern football, how players are coached to go down when there is any sort of contact. It also illustrates why this will be so hard to root out of the game, when a player just collapses under the slightest touch without even knowing who touched him.
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you know we can see the video :ROFL:

anyway, this isnt a modern football thing.

it's literally been happening for decades.

defender running towards his own box with the ball, attacker gets close to him defender falls forward and grabs the ball.

I dont think people want this, but this is clearly being pushed as an Arsenal thing - like grappling for corners, which they are not even the worst offenders at
 
_kabal_ said:
you know we can see the video :ROFL:

anyway, this isnt a modern football thing.

it's literally been happening for decades.

defender running towards his own box with the ball, attacker gets close to him defender falls forward and grabs the ball.

I dont think people want this, but this is clearly being pushed as an Arsenal thing - like grappling for corners, which they are not even the worst offenders at
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Sure, shirt tugging has always been a thing, but how far do you think you'd have gotten trying to hang on to or hold someone like Duncan Ferguson or Razor Ruddock? These were also the sort of players that didn't just go down either. And the Prem was loaded with that sort of player into the early/mid 2000s. Even someone like Alan Shearer wasn't going to let you hang on to him.

The game has swung from policing out physicality to now grappling with the scourge of coached diving and a different kind of full contact during set pieces.
 
thestaggy said:
Sure, shirt tugging has always been a thing, but how far do you think you'd have gotten trying to hang on to or hold someone like Duncan Ferguson or Razor Ruddock? These were also the sort of players that didn't just go down either. And the Prem was loaded with that sort of player into the early/mid 2000s. Even someone like Alan Shearer wasn't going to let you hang on to him.

The game has swung from policing out physicality to now grappling with the scourge of coached diving and a different kind of full contact during set pieces.
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It's an impossible balance IMO

A contact sport when any minor contact on an attacker is a penalty (probably the root cause to "going down too easily")
Too much holding vs too much going down easily.

This is up to the rule makers to fix, not the teams and players
 
_kabal_ said:
It's an impossible balance IMO

A contact sport when any minor contact on an attacker is a penalty (probably the root cause to "going down too easily")
Too much holding vs too much going down easily.

This is up to the rule makers to fix, not the teams and players
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Its easy to fix

No referee should be asked to do a real time evaluation on whether the guy crumbling to the ground like he was just hit by a sniper is acting or not

Establish post match review sessions. Assess if its a dive and assign penalty points.

3 points and you miss a match

Why is this so hard to do?
 
Heisenborg said:
Its easy to fix

No referee should be asked to do a real time evaluation on whether the guy crumbling to the ground like he was just hit by a sniper is acting or not

Establish post match review sessions. Assess if its a dive and assign penalty points.

3 points and you miss a match

Why is this so hard to do?
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ask the law makers?
 
Heisenborg said:
Its easy to fix

No referee should be asked to do a real time evaluation on whether the guy crumbling to the ground like he was just hit by a sniper is acting or not

Establish post match review sessions. Assess if its a dive and assign penalty points.

3 points and you miss a match

Why is this so hard to do?
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This would kill the matchgoing/watching experience. Why celebrate a goal when you could get docked points hours/ days later
 
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