After 60 minutes players are dropping like flies with it and the trainer comes on for a chat and a bit of massage ffs. You can still walk with cramp referee ... ... either tell them to limp off the pitch or lie there til it passes
They also still seem to have these 'drinks breaks' as well which come in for a World Cup when it's roasting hot (fair enough) but they seem to continue having them on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke etc. Soft as **** these players these days.
The way these modern footballers throw themselves to ground at the slightest touch annoys me so much. It's beyond embarrassing
I've just recently done mine after it blew down in the first storm (Arwen I think it was). What a killer that was, my back is in bits
Watching 'The Big Match Revisited' is a shocker. You'll see a massive tackle go in on someone who fails to scream or roll over thirty times ... ... they just jump up and get on with the game. The poor trainers hardly ever get to sprint on and don't have a microphone to talk into when they do. Added time is almost always two or three minutes
Cramp during sex can be particularly awkward I believed one lass was really enjoying it when she started screaming and asked me to 'stretch her calf' ... ... I thought it was a euphemism so I just shoved it in harder
Flanagan got injured yesterday and went down when we had a corner. He then got up and defended the corner and laid down afterwards. If I’m refereeing that, I tell him”you got up to defend the corner, you walk off the field” Made no sense when he thought “I’ll go down now and get the trainer on” Shambolic the way it’s managed by a team now. Refs have no balls to say “well you can walk so just get on with it”
There was a video on Facebook of Julian Dicks hitting David Rush in the chest with 6 Studs. One of the worst “tackles “ you will ever see.Rush just got up and got on with it. The commentators thought he possibly should’ve been booked!!
Oxford scored on Saturday, keeper caught the player with a coming together as the ball went under him, player was straight up celebrating. If the ball had went wide, or cleared off the line by a defender, there's no doubt in my mind the Oxford player would have been rolling around in "agony",penalty claims, medical team on the lot. I hate all of that, hence 09s shenanigans in the box at the weekend deserved a yellow card and a flea in the ear. When I player is injured, they tend to stay very still.
I've no doubt AN will have a word with O'Nien ... ... he could've actually created a chance if he'd stayed on his feet. I don't like to see dives by any player.
The old cliche... what's the difference between Football and Rugby players, Football players pretend they are hurt.. Rugby players pretend they are not..
said it before, my one hope for VAR was that it would show these 'divers' up for what they are and that retrospective cards/bans be handed out...if anything it has made it worse with the ever helpful and insightful pundits rule of 'if there is contact, it's a foul' that the refs seem to have also taken on board. players instigating the foul should be sorted as well, if they play themselves into trouble they should have to play themselves out, not suddenly stop and lean back slightly so the opposition player cannot help but collide with them.
In a lot of cases its players staying down to waste time, or to get the physio on if the other team is on top to try and disrupt their momentum and slow the pace of the game down. We've seen it loads at the SOL. Not a fan at all but seemingly an accepted part of the game these days.
Yes I thought it might help stop diving... but it does seem 'a touch ' however slight justifies a foul/penalty...or a dive. Its actually pathetic... but particularly (and ex )Wycombe/Athletico Madrid players have it as part of their training and refs/var assist it. As per the Rugby cliche above... Nigel Owen a ref when he saw a rugby player pretending to be hurt to get a penalty said "Boy, what do you think you are doing... you are not playing soccer"
