These players need to take a look at Messi. He gets absolutely battered every single game but always tries his best to stay on his feet... and it normally results in a goal! I remember la liga either last season or the one before where the Real defence were literally trying haul him to the ground and he just stumbled his way to the goal running 100mph and still scored. Just proves that real class will always outshine the simulators, which is why imo Ronaldo will never be on the same level as Messi. Also i think the reason Bale doesnt get as much media attention as Suarez is because of the theatrics Suarez adds to his dives. Seems to me like Bale is just trying to win a free kick or pen, Suarez also seems to want to get the other person booked or sent off. Both are scumbags to me though.
He gets a sligh tickle but not enough to do down. There's a slow motion vid a page pack on this thread.
Just to clear something up, players aren't running on ice, so this 'oh he's moving so fast that it only takes a slight touch to knock him off balance' is absolute 100% bollocks. If you're moving faster, you're generating more power than when you're stationary, so it's actually the opposite: it takes a harder contact to knock you over. Put it this way, what hurts more, running into somebody who is running towards you, or running into somebody who is standing still? And who are you more likely to knock over?
Have to admit I haven't seen the whole thing, but from the look of that gif Gardner was trying to foul him, and when you go into the side of someone's knee like that it's hard for it not to knock them off balance no matter how slight the contact. But I guess that all comes back to the individual view of when is something a foul and when it is not - like DDDDDD says the fact Bale made a massive meal out of it doesn't mean it isn't a foul.
Argh it was such a soft tap. I get booted and boot strikers all the time when playing and if you want to stay on your feet you can do. The same goes for Bale. He waits for the touch and goes down. If he wasn't such a cheating pansy he could of gone on rather than looking for the panalty. And, yes, I'm aware Suarez often does the same thing.
there was contact... and then Bale let his leg go limp. Could have just continued on but fell over. If he got clocked harder than that and stay on his feet he would not get a pen. What do you do. Refs are not inclined to give penos when you stay up even when you have been fouled, Suarez had his shirt pulled for quite a while before he went down and then the whistle went
I'll wait to see it in real time on MOTD, but from that gif it looks a foul to me. What happens afterwards is also relevant, because if he goes down like a sack of spuds then understandably the ref is going to be suspicious. It saddens me to hear modern fans and even so-called "experts" saying that if there is contact you have a "right" to go down. As far as I'm concerned you have a right to go down only if you can't possibly stay up. Bale and Suarez and others like them need to learn to stay on their feet when they can. They might miss out on some decisions, but if they are clearly honest they're more likely to get the decisions that currently go against them. Suarez does seem to be improving in this respect and I hope that continues. Now we just have to persuade him to stop waving his arms around at every opportunity. I'd suggest he had them strapped down if he didn't need them for balance.
True, but the fact you can stay on your feet doesn't always mean you should. Otherwise, like I said, defenders will just know they can give you the odd kick and tug to put you off and gain an advantage and you'll never go down. The key is to pick your battles - I have no doubt if Bale hadn't gone down for much softer things on such a regular basis he'd get the pen. This - you have to choose your battles. Like Drogba said, strikers get kicked and pushed a lot - sometimes you dive sometimes you don't dive. Pretty much all strikers could stay on their feet with pretty much any contact - if you really want to stay up you stay up. But if you do that you'll get kicked all over the pitch and never get a single foul.
Until professional footballers change their philosophy, it nothing is going to happen about. We now here present and former players publicly stating that "if you feel a TOUCH you should go down"
You here again,Yoda? Seriously, that's what I was saying earlier. Us oldies remember a time when nobody would ever admit to going down unless they were really fouled and couldn't stay up. Now however, it's deemed perfectly acceptable to make the most of any contact. Pisses me off, quite frankly.
There is a place, a magical place where you can get pens if you stay on your feet or even if you are not fouled, or if the score is set at the optimum need for a pen, or if the wind blows and knocks you off your feet and sometimes on very magical occaisions the right man just has to make the request
