Loads. Like tarkowski. He is constantly cheating, he is always over the line and somehow gets away with it. Or pickford timewasting. Or players surrouding refs or attempting to influence. Or guys who can talk a card into a refs hand for an opponent but are cute enough to now ever wave a fake one. They simply changed from one trick to another based on a rule chance. Or people like trippier who are constantly cheating to get by. Or people who got stand on a keeper they and foul as the ball gets kicked then run away Or people who interfere with walls or kick the line away and encroach a yard to close up the gap. Or people who take 10 yards on any throw they get Or managers who leave thier technical area constantly. Or people like saka who are snide little foulers who love throwing elbows but will fall over if a breeze passes them by There's loads of cheats. One of the biggest is the pen taker hopping about delaying and hoping a keeper goes first. They even made a rule for that I heard someone on this unfair advantage stuff last night on talksport and just dont see it. Oh he looked at his liggle boppy bless him. Smash it in. If you take a pen properly no keeper can reach it. If you are the chosen pan taker for a club that should be automatic. Pickford only has a.guess.whicj side to go to give himself what he thinks is his best chance and he will flop over early. Smash it past him
That's corruption rather than simple cheating to gain advantage in a game. It's a criminal offence rather than a moral one.
It's very interesting how rule driven you are. Everything you've listed there is a rule break. See for me there's a distinction between breaking a rule and being sneaky. Yes you can be doing both at the same time but for me the biggest form of cheating in football is doing something that isn't in the rules that tries to gain you an advantage. Pretending to be injured being the most obvious and most often used.
Like stamping on a forwards toes on a set piece? I find most things already have a rule as most things started out as someone acting badly and forcing a rule to be created. Having a list on a bottle will never have a rule against it. When a ref allows a full back march 10 yards up a line faking the throw and does nothing thats clearly against the rules but irrelevant largely but if a ref forces them to go back they are moaned at for being pedantic. So rules only suit the team thats on the other side.
That’s why for me it has to be against a rule to be cheating Everything else falls in to different categories which is why for me the crib sheet can’t be cheating as there is no rule prohibiting it if there was a rule prohibiting it then yes it would be cheating until that rule arrives it is something else Though what it exactly is remains unclear in my brain lol
Bearing in mind there is no rule about the cheat sheet, why are they so sneaky about it? Scared of looking incompetent Remember the rugby fake blood incident? No rules against concealing a vial of fake blood on your person to be used to gain an advantage or as I like to call it, cheat.
2 things I’d love to see amended is 1. when a free kick is given, team can take it whenever they want. Keeper wants to line up a wall and run to the post to check it? Sure… but better do it quick as player should be allowed to just take it as soon as they want. Why do we give the defence so much advantage of stopping play, letting them get 11 men behind the ball, get the goal keeper to set up a block etc. where is the advantage there? And the 2nd similar line, when a penalty is given as soon as confirmed the ref should blow his whistle once all settled and say ball is ready. If the keeper is walking off his line, walking to his bottle, walking to tap the posts, so be it. The player should be allowed to take the pen once they are ready. No where in rules books say those things are allowed to happen to delay things but have become common practise in slowing the game down and trying to hand the advantage back to the defence.
