Back one-and-a-half somersaults, tuck!!
No not the swimming variety - I've just finished watching Braga vs Tottenham and I'm ready for a rant!
I know Sepp Blatter is a regular visitor to this blog. Sepp - if you were watching tonight you have to do something about diving in football. The sport can be such a spectacle but it can be totally ruined when players are blatently cheating to win games. Braga's two goals both came from obvious simulation. Referee's can't be trusted to get these decisions right but if we started giving out yellow and even red cards retrospectively I think you'd find the problem dissappeared pretty quickly.
Thankfully Tottenham are vastly superior so it shouldn't pose a problem progressing to the next round but we all know how big a problem this is on the continent. It's creeping into the great British game too (I blame Becks) but would like it stopped before we end up the same!!
It's a great game - let's keep it that way!
I know Sepp Blatter is a regular visitor to this blog. Sepp - if you were watching tonight you have to do something about diving in football. The sport can be such a spectacle but it can be totally ruined when players are blatently cheating to win games. Braga's two goals both came from obvious simulation. Referee's can't be trusted to get these decisions right but if we started giving out yellow and even red cards retrospectively I think you'd find the problem dissappeared pretty quickly.
Thankfully Tottenham are vastly superior so it shouldn't pose a problem progressing to the next round but we all know how big a problem this is on the continent. It's creeping into the great British game too (I blame Becks) but would like it stopped before we end up the same!!
It's a great game - let's keep it that way!
Labels: rant
well said, although I don't think the blame can wholly be placed at the feet of becks. I think Mark Walters and Alan Smith (of arsenal fame) have something to do with it
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09 March 2007 11:38