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The reality is that most clubs have their fair share of idiots. However, Chelsea have history. They (or their fans) have cleaned up their act and nothing is happening on the same scale as in the 80s. Anyone recalling these times will cringe. Most will say " Did we really behave like that??"

This may seem very drastic but these kind of racism attached to clubs across Europe (including English ones) would only be eliminated if clubs started losing points. Look at racist events in Italy and Eastern Europe: fines and playying in empty stadia do not work. Losing points will. Their own fans will turn on these idiots and make sure their clubs do not suffer.

 

Yep, if Rooney had super human abilities to stop dead in the keeper's path he would then have to wait a couple of seconds for the "legbreaker" to arrive and hit him

 

I would pause for a moment and realising this was just a bunch of men kicking a ball around a field I'd reach down and offer a hand of friendhip. In that moment our eyes would meet and a sense of brotherly love would fill our hearts. I'd help him to his feet, we may even hug (though optional), he would pass me the ball and I would smash it into the top left (or right, havent decided yet) corner of the goal. At which point football and humanity, would have prevailed and everyone would celebrate.

Or fck it, kick him in the head and knock the ball in.

 

The cheating debate will never go away. What about the player who appeals for a throw or corner knowing fine well he had the last touch?

'Gaining an advantage' is part of the fabric of the game, whether we like it or not, it'd be impossible to turn back the clock to a time when 'honour' came before seeking an advantage by fair means or foul.

 

You do realise I was answering UIR's hypothetical scenario, and not describing the Rooney dive?

 

I didn't care. Even hypothetically, Rooney blatantly dived

 

I recall the racist chanting of yesteryear and there's where I'd like it to stay. These incidents popping up now need to be addressed. As you say taking points off clubs may make these individuals think twice but there would also need to be some sort of scale. Would the middle-aged man doing the monkey dance at Anfield incur the same penalty as the Chelsea train mob?

 

It certainly will if we never try.

 

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

 

Nobody's disputing that.
Apart from UIR, understandably.

 

The recent change is that Mancs, media and #bitters are now celebrating Man Utd's cheating rather than in the past when they could at least say "well it was wrong but didn't change the result, the better team won"

Man Utd are now no longer the better team. Against Preston North End.

 

That's hilarious Page

 

I like a little light reading on a slow Wednesday afternoon.

 

Lots of honourable chaps what what!

 

I dropped my monocle laughing

 

2:20 you can't score direct from a throw-in, I don't think this game was #legit

 

Some if worse than others though. Diving is considered worse than claiming for a throw because of the implications it can have.

Much llike touching someone's nose wth your fingernail and punching someone in the head are both reds... But one of worse than the other. Just who's have thought it was the first that was apparently worse