I often see other teams cheat/dive/act and think "I'm glad I don't support a club like that", however, recently I've seen this sort of behaviour creep into our game, and quite frankly I'm not prepared to put up with it. Therefore, as the moral conscience of Hull City AFC, I have decided to create this thread in order call out Hull City players who I believe have behaved unacceptably. This week: George Boyd - Daft dive near the half way line during the first half. Yannick Sagbo - Stayed down an obscene amount of time when not actually injured. If we are going to eradicate this sort of behaviour from our game then we need to start at home.
Sagbo got the game stopped with his writhing around. Then got up a few secs later when the ball was outed by Joan Terry. Pointless and the ref had words with him.
The Boyd dive made me laugh. He seemed to just carefully lay face down and he looked a bit embarrassed when he had to get up.
I think they just need more practice. The amount of free kicks and decisions other teams get from this sort of behaviour is worth 5-10 points a season. If you can't beat them, join 'em!
Hate diving, but you can see why some of our players may have tried something a bit more obvious today, as the ref was giving them the softest of decisions - even when we won the ball they got a freekick. Other way around and he waved play on. Our players must surely get pissed off with some of the officiating in this league. And as for the 'linesman' along the East stand - the bloke didn't even know the offside rule.
What's the rule on simulation? Does it have to be a blatant attempt to fool the ref? What if players just started taking the piss out of the opposition by just diving at random?
i think we do alright when it comes to the challenges our players make sometimes. I put that down to none of our current players act up with the ref and i think they do cut our players some slack .
I loved Clattenburk offering advantage after a foul when there wasn't a City player within 20 yards of the half dozen Chelsea where the ball ended up. Mind you, ref did put in a good tackle to break up an early Chelsea attack.
I am sick of diving. Chelsea weren't as bad as Man U, but still pretty poor. I could have been watching a live episode of that ****e 'Splash'. Also, how many times is Luiz allowed to lead with his elbow and go completely unpunished? It does seem like one rule for the top 4 and one rule for everyone else.
Elmohamady at home v Man U near the end of the game at the half way line. Threw himself on the deck and rolled round holding his face for about 3 seconds until he realised he were making a decent attack then just launched back to his feet and pegged it to join in
Re the refs, I actually want to go down. I'm leaving games feeling furious at little ****ing twats constantly trying to con the refs and the refs blatantly biased in favour of the more fashionable teams and not even trying to hide it. Disgusts me and ruins the game. I want to be back in the championship where I actually enjoyed watching. The premier league ****e can **** off and the half and half scarf wearing **** bags and the like can **** off with it.
The refs are actually worse in the Championship in my opinion. I used to get more wound up last season. The Sagbo thing was so pointless. Embarrassing that some fans were shouting in protest that we didn't get a free kick for that. The thing is he does it every game, it's just embarrassing.
Worse but honestly worse, not pure bias towards fashionable sides. They wern't all bad anyway. The point is pretty much every game you could turn up and get to watch a proper game of football. In this league the amount of play acting, diving, just pure cheating and then the refs favouring some teams more doesnt make entertaining viewing, it's just infuriating. I'm bloody well not. I just recognize its not the end of the world if it happens.
Hate diving. Saggy's attempt today was pretty embarassing. I thought Clattenburg was a pretty good ref tbh today.
