Havnt seen the Tiote incident yet, correct decision made apparently but it has prompted me to share my idea regarding feigning injury/contact/over simulation/diving! Now most footballers do it, playing for all teams, it is unfair to single out Tiote, most will do anything to get the three points, even making complete tits of themselves even when they know that the camera is watching!! Very frustrating for the football fan, especially when it happens against your side! However I believe that the best way to stamp this out is the brandishing of a PINK CARD!!!! The card can be given during the game by the referee or after the match by a panel of experts/former footballers watching video evidence! If a players is caught being a big girls blouse then a pink card is given! The punishment is not a 3 game ban, but the compulsory wearing of a comedy pink tutu for up to 3 games! This will result in great embarressment for the player, especially when the crowd will be forced to chant 'OOOOOOOHHH GET HER!!!!!!' in a camp manner, every time he touches the ball!!!! It will certainly bruise their over inflated egos and make them think twice about doing it! Problem solved!
Yeah you could give the likes of Tiote and Frazier Campbell pink cards for feigning injury, but the number you'd have to hand out in any one game let alone one weekend would be far too numemrous. Modern players cheat at every given opportunity, just the way it is now. The feigning injury and dives seeped in with the foreigners, with it being part of their footballing culture. The likes of Beckham and Owen lead the way in the English players following suit and now its just accepted. Not sure there is any way back now because we sold out and it has become ingrained in our game.
I think a lady boxer might be unimpressed by your assertion that pink or girls signify soft. Or Bret 'Hitman' Hart might give you a Sharpshooter. Otherwise I agree with the sentiment, as long as this would also apply to Cattermoles 5th minute dive over Simpson which should've been his second yellow?
We had hoodies made for our sunday league team to at lest look as though we were a decent team hahaha, but also had a pink one made up with "Match Donkey" on the back for said person off the week before. It didnt really improve our league positon but gave the other teams a laugh every week.
Well in a mans man world, one of which footballers and the 'typical male football fan stood on the terrace' like to think that they are in, I would imagine that wearing pink can be seen as being degrading! When they were dishing colours out on Reservoir Dogs, Mr Pink was not best pleased!
Jumbo , think that this is a bad idea because Steven Taylor will be doing even more play-acting if he know's he gets to wear a pink tutu at the end of it.
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Still got my Summerslam 92 ticket somewhere, only time I went to old Wembley... Scared of pink? Doesn't bother Palermo, and its Juventus' traditional away colour. Incidentally both clubs we've played in Europe.
What I find really funny is that the mags have always portrayed Tiote as some kind of hard man..I think we can now all put that one to bed..
Eem..Sorry I must have missed Cattermole's five second delayed reaction dive to the ground and rolling about as if he had been hit with a hammer..
The worst dive of the game was Bardsley's which came complete with a fake girly scream. Either that or the air rushing past his ankle must have been surprsingly painful...........................
