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Why does soccer not crack down on diving?

punkmother said:
you must be from the aforementioned third world. enjoy the dysentery.
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or maybe i'm just someone who finds your attempt to link diving in sports with economic status to be completely ridiculous ?

not to mention of course that " diving " was pretty much perfected in countries like spain and italy , not the " third world ".
 
farfan said:
or maybe i'm just someone who finds your attempt to link diving in sports with economic status to be completely ridiculous ?
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then you are ignorant to the studies conducted at the sports science institute and have not read the soccer wars.

not to mention of course that " diving " was pretty much perfected in countries like spain and italy , not the " third world ".
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so because spain and italy perfected it, it's okay for the entire third world to abuse it? third world logic right there.
 
Faking an injury interrupts an already boring game. The penalty for faking an injury should be a one year suspension. Anyone that goes down and can't get up in 8 seconds has to be taken out of the game.
 
What was the name of the player who was carried off on a stretcher, then came running out jumping and hollering as part of the celebration after his team won? This happened sometime earlier this week. My little brother told me about it.

And internationals try to compare this chicken shit to the NFL's chicken salad...ROFL for life.
 
Madmick said:
What was the name of the player who was carried off on a stretcher, then came running out jumping and hollering as part of the celebration after his team won? This happened sometime earlier this week. My little brother told me about it.

And internationals try to compare this chicken shit to the NFL's chicken salad...ROFL for life.
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Exactly. When an NFL player goes down, he's down (ie Navorro Bowman last season).
 
sodapopinski said:
I've actually grown to like the sport, especially when there's national pride involved.

A broken thumb is no joke, though. Carried off on a stretcher is a bit too much but at least it's a legit injury.
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Even when I played HS football it would be unthinkable if you stopped playing for a broken finger/thumb. You would be known as a pussy for something like that.

Also, flopping in the NBA is now officially worse than in soccer. No doubt about it.
 
There does need to be escalating penalties after the fact. None of this pussy ass fine shit, games need to be missed.
 
kuromusha said:
Exactly. When an NFL player goes down, he's down (ie Navorro Bowman last season).
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You could see Bowman grinding through to pull in the tackle as his knee was effectively getting torn into two adjacent joints.

The man is a Titan on earth.
 
Animal Cracker said:
Even when I played HS football it would be unthinkable if you stopped playing for a broken finger/thumb. You would be known as a pussy for something like that.

Also, flopping in the NBA is now officially worse than in soccer. No doubt about it.
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It's still not even close judging by what I've seen here, but apparently the WC is worse than anything except supposedly La Liga and Serie A. The Premier League and MLS are the best that I've seen-- as I stated earlier in the thread. The NBA flopping analogy is now disgracefully a debate with those leagues (or, at least, the Miami Heat).

What a shame.
 
I miss the good ole day's of Richard Lowe, and rucking the hell out of players oppositions back.
 
Unfortunately, the president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, is a fucking Stone Age retard. It's taken over 10 years to implement hawk-eye style goal line technology. He refuses to implement video replay, which would help the referees make clearer decisions. Watch rugby, they use video replay a lot, and the game has far less bad decisions. Refs are only human, tech would help a lot.
 
On the other end of the scale, you've got the uragwian player who was knocked out cold but the English player knee to the temple. Once he recovered consciousness (still wobbly as hell) he got back onto the pitch and played out the rest of the game. That how all players should be.
 
laz0001 said:
On the other end of the scale, you've got the uragwian player who was knocked out cold but the English player knee to the temple. Once he recovered consciousness (still wobbly as hell) he got back onto the pitch and played out the rest of the game. That how all players should be.
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Yeah, that kinda policy is working great for the NFL and the their former players suing them lol.

All this machismo shit is just the other end of the extreme. We've got the diving pansy's in one corner and the 'dude you've only been decapitated, get back out there!' crowd in the other.
 
laz0001 said:
Unfortunately, the president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, is a fucking Stone Age retard. It's taken over 10 years to implement hawk-eye style goal line technology. He refuses to implement video replay, which would help the referees make clearer decisions. Watch rugby, they use video replay a lot, and the game has far less bad decisions. Refs are only human, tech would help a lot.
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No they dont. For the moment tv officials only intervene in "try" plays - and even then there are big controversies, see Aviva Premiership final. And i dont think Rugby is a great example. Fucking Richie McCaw - and a bunch of others like Smith, Burger et alia- played offside in the rucks, always entering from the sides for years and nobody on the IRB Board seemed to give a fuck about it.
 
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