Can anyone explain why players take shirts off, usually after scoring a goal, when they know it will earn a yellow card. Are they all just brain dead? What is the significance of this action?
Just the spur of the monent and passion about scoring. I personally think its a stupid rule that they get booked for it. They only do it when the goal is a big one or means something.
Sorry, drew a smile.. I think the man is a class act boxer banksy, but I don't care if a man wants to exchange his shirt but do it at the end of a game not half way through it..
Football has a difficult "control" problem in that supporters are tribal and lose all sense of logic when cheering on their team. There are constant claims of racial abuse, bookings introduced to reduce physical contact , stupid off side rules, ridiculous rules when trainers attend and so on. In this atmosphere it is deemed that removing your shirt as part of the euphoria of celebration is an act that will wind up opposition supporters. Whether it does not is open to debate. Having said that to me the real problem with football is that there is too much money being paid to players who have a win at all costs mentality. This manifests itself in players rolling over and over and clutching their legs in an attempt to get opposition players booked/sent off. In this respect well done Warnock as Zaha and team did not show any histrionics when Zaha was clearly tripped yesterday. The answer to your question is that it is part of an over the top celebration which happens to wind up the opposition supporters and is part of a win at all costs problem. Answers on a postcard ......
"In this respect well done Warnock as Zaha and team did not show any histrionics when Zaha was clearly tripped yesterday" What this Neil Warnock? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29741189
Irrespective of his history was yesterday's reaction the type of behaviour of which you approve ? It is the players who must take the lead on good behaviour, as directed by their managers (well some of them). Yesterdays Chelsea Man U match identified the latest (another) problem i.e. wrestling in the penalty box at corners, answer award more penalties. Basically football has got to find ways of making its participants behave in the way the brand dictates. He who pays the piper.........
I have a martial arts and boxing background. I still train. The fear of a bout was stomach and sphincter twisting. The victory a release. I have ko'd an opponent, I have submitted an opponent but never felt the need to strip to my waist and do a gross physical salute to celebrate my victory. In my ju days if after one of my defeats an opponent had twirled his Judogi I may have waited for him for a word, "you disrespect the sport and me, less try this again stood up with fists ...!"
Immediate red card would solve the problem right now. Do the clubs discipline these self obsessed idiots?
Question should be why do so many modern players remove their shirt after scoring a goal? Maybe its the thought of £££'s kerching bonus for a goal. Players were not always so.
Here's the answer: After a player is booked for taking his shirt off make him wear a shirt that is at least a metre longer for the next ten games. It will be take him so long to pull the shirt over his head he will remember to stop or will run into something and knock hmself out. Alternatively make him wear a shirt like a baby-grow that buttons up in the crotch. Then he will have to take his shorts off to unbutton it and in that time the urge will have passed
The only way to stop players doing this is by hitting them in their pockets. Now here's a question for you. Do players get paid when they are suspended? I believe that any action taken by a player which prevents him working for his employer then they should be penalised somehow. Again I have asked previous managers this question but they decline to answer. The argument is always their contract is a private matter but I believe this should be a matter of club policy. Players are well paid but are wrapped up in cotton wool. And another thing despite earning thousands of pounds a week they always grab a load of complimentary tickets each week for their mates. If they want tickets they should pay like we have to
