I wish there was more of the same (fair play)

by Onyx Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:34 pm

Would that happen in every situation though? hmm

by rwo power Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:58 pm

Good question, but then, it wasn't every situation and in *this* situation he did the fair thing.

by El Chelsea Fuerte Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:00 pm

football is too competitive

no time for fair play

by Robespierre Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:07 pm

Fowler against Arsenal in 1997 hmm

never understood because the referee equally gave the penalty kick although Fowler said that there wasn't .

by The_Badger Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:08 pm

Yohan Modric wrote:Would that happen in every situation though?

Would it happen if they weren't winning?

by futbol Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:28 pm

Fair play to the referee as well. Some referees are asses and stick with their decisions.

by VendettaRed07 Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:33 pm

El Chelsea Fuerte wrote:football is too competitive

no time for fair play

Winning with honor means something

by The_Badger Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:42 pm

VendettaRed07 wrote:
El Chelsea Fuerte wrote:football is too competitive

no time for fair play

Winning with honor means something

It did, once over, it's a rarity in modern football.

by BarrileteCosmico Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:12 pm

Let's be honest, if this happened in a final that player would get eaten alive by the fans.

by The_Badger Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:56 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Let's be honest, if this happened in a final that player would get eaten alive by the fans.

Certainly, but I guess it would depend on the score and if they were victorious in the end.

by ExtremistEnigma Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:09 pm

He clearly dived though, and so he could afford doing it otherwise he would've been lambasted everywhere. Not to mention Bremen were leading by 2 goals. It's like shooting someone in the knee and claiming that he or she had the chance to shoot the victim in the head but didn't, and people applauding him for not doing that.

Now, if suppose he dived a bit more professionally like Ronaldo or Neymar, and Bremen were not leading, would he have done that? Definitely not.

by El Chelsea Fuerte Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:47 pm

VendettaRed07 wrote:
El Chelsea Fuerte wrote:football is too competitive

no time for fair play

Winning with honor means something

barcelona squad is full of divers/cheaters and no one uses it to play down anything they win

by The_Badger Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:58 pm

El Chelsea Fuerte wrote:
VendettaRed07 wrote:
El Chelsea Fuerte wrote:football is too competitive

no time for fair play

Winning with honor means something

barcelona squad is full of divers/cheaters and no one uses it to play down anything they win

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any club recently that has won a major title without having benefited somewhere along the way from a contentious decision due to gamesmanship.

by Vibe Sat Mar 29, 2014 2:33 am

There should be more policing around diving,with hefty bans.They would think twice about doing it...

I also always found players crowding the ref ridiculous.Only team captain should be allowed to speak with the ref.

by The_Badger Sat Mar 29, 2014 2:37 am

Vibe wrote:There should be more policing around diving,with hefty bans.They would think twice about doing it...

I also always found players crowding the ref ridiculous.Only team captain should be allowed to speak with the ref.

The thing with policing diving is in its difficulty judging it, especially in game time. Retrospective punishment, where a panel off judges determine if it was a dive or not and punish the players perhaps could work, but it's of little justice to a team that may lose a match through a dive for a penalty.

by El Chelsea Fuerte Sat Mar 29, 2014 4:02 am

Vibe wrote:There should be more policing around diving,with hefty bans.They would think twice about doing it...

I also always found players crowding the ref ridiculous.Only team captain should be allowed to speak with the ref.

Yep agreed with both points.

by 7amood11 Sat Mar 29, 2014 4:30 am

Yohan Modric wrote:Would that happen in every situation though?

I think he said that he couldn't guarantee doing the same in a different situation.

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