With video refs being used in the near future they should be able to clamp down on this sort of thing. The only thing that will cut it out is red carding an offender, it's quite simply deliberate cheating...
Probably, you're right. The rule should be clarified that if the referee feels the contact wasn't enough to cause the player to fall, it's treated as as much of a dive as if there was no contact. Won't happen, but it should.
Stan Collymore? Isn't he the arsehole that punched Ulrika Jonsson in a bar in Paris? A fine example of a human being. Can't stand the c*nt.
But that's the irony, if two players are running together in the box, slightest contact attacker goes down = Penalty Whereas a corner, the defender is virtually allowed to wrap both arms around the attacker, and no foul. Bizarre. Whereas, anywhere else on the pitch, the decisions would be reversed. No foul for the first, foul for the second
Can't see video helping sort out diving especially during a game, it's sight only. Refs and linesmen need to judge that from sight and smell, and red carding as you say.
That's another thing, players have lost the ability to "ride a tackle" watching a skilful player make a mug out of a clogged was a beautiful thing
This is undoubtedly the rose tinted nostalgia of the fading mind, but brilliant as those players are, and also Ronaldo, I miss the days when some not particularly fast, not particularly strong players just seemed to drift round the opposition (who were trying to kick them) with a shift of balance rather than pace, power or tricks.
would they've been able to perform with some of the tactics todays defenders get up to. Mind you with the wages today, I'd doubt if you would have managed to get these two on the pitch
There was a moment last night when Hoilett took on a defender on the left side of the penalty area and was kicked as he went past. He rode it and crossed to the back post, where Philips should have scored but failed to get his head on it. Had Hoilett gone down, it was a cert penalty.
I always thought it had to be a foul for a penalty to be awarded......these days it seems that foul has been replaced by "contact" but it's funny how it's always the attacker that hits the ground under "contact" and not the defender....... They should revert back to the old interpretation of a foul and kick this "contact" interpretation into touch........
