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[The Friendly Monster]

Football is now the only sport in the world where the rules are exactly the same from park level to international level, and that is one of the beauties of it.

That's absolutely retarded.

 

[Yen]

Commentators gong on about how the english players get an easier time for diving, and how foreign players might be to blame for bringing in diving to the PL. What?

It'll be something the press will manage to avoid. Only dirty foreigners dive.

 

[kharma45]

Someone capture a gif of Darth Vidic sitting on the bench

Managed to find a still

 

[Jeff Albertson]

The red card has relaxed united too much

I wanted 5-0

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

STAY ON YOUR FUCKING FEET DANNY.

 

[Wilbur]

But why weren't you moaning that you stole a point last week due in part to a bad decision after a dive? At least moan consistently about it

United get away with dissent too much IMO Valencia should have been booked there and Scholes on Monday

Yeah, I don't remember DC posting for ages, he just avoided it.

Blowing our own trumpet here, but fair play lads for coming out and chastising the prick on our side.

 

[Rad-]

Welbeck has been horrible lately.

 

[Brinbe]

Damn. Good chance there

 

[Hixx]

Man United playing some really nice football.

Welbeck is like a pissed horse in the box, he just flings his arms and legs about.

 

[Salazar]

Managed to find a still

Bags it as an avatar.

 

[Jeff Albertson]

Wellbeck is Sturidge levels of shit

 

[Vivalaraza]

I'm bored.

Want goals.

 

[K1LLER7]

Welbeck's finishing is bad

 

[Willkiller]

That's not a beauty. It's an ugly beast that bites the head off teams fighting from relegation.

Yep

Suarez

Enough said.

The fact that you said you're a referee just shows how fucked up referees are. I don't like Suarez at all, I hate the cunt, but he clearly isn't the only (and certainly not the first) foreign player to dive. The English do it just as much.

I'd never want someone like you to be refereeing a Newcastle game, I wouldn't even want you refereeing a sunday under 10s game.

 

[Splatt]

I love Welbeck's finishing.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

In retrospect, the media onslaught on Klinsmann was astounding racist drool.

He had the intelligence to turn it into a joke and make his celebration.

 

[Wilbur]

If Welbeck and Hernandez had a baby he'd be the most lethal striker of all time

 

[Choc]

Woah calm down

i said more than suarez dives in a later post. I also said FIFA need to grow up and give red card ability for diving. It will eradicate it.

 

[ElyrionX]

Of course it is, if Young has dived to win a penalty then he has cheated to try and win the title.

So going by that sweeping definition, you'd argue that almost every single league or cup winner has cheated their way to their victories in the past?

 

[Hixx]

Yep


The fact that you said you're a referee just shows how fucked up referees are. I don't like Suarez at all, I hate the cunt, but he clearly isn't the only (and certainly not the first) foreign player to dive. The English do it just as much.

I'd never want someone like you to be refereeing a Newcastle game, I wouldn't even want you refereeing a sunday under 10s game.

choc you dont understand this topic you are supposed to get angry back at him and have a crap argument for 3 pages

 

[The Friendly Monster]

So going by that sweeping definition, you'd argue that almost every single league or cup winner has cheated their way to their victories in the past?

To some extent of course.

 

[Wilbur]

Unless the baby got Hernandez's ball skills and Welbeck's finishing.

We'd get a mixed race Emile Heskey

 

[Yurt]

Ahh I missed the first half!

HAI SCHOLES

Im mad at Juve yo! Stop buying our youngsters!

Believe me, I want us to stop buying expensive youngsters

I'm still too excited

http://i.minus.com/isXeg7M48eBG5.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]

I'm still buzzin' as well! It'll last for a week :p

 

[Choc]

so this is what i posted yes i made a troll suarez post by itself, but then i backed it up elsewhere

Suarez isnt the ONLY player who does it

and Englishmen do it.

honestly FIFA need to give us the power to send divers off. If you call another player a cheat, you are sent off, under the LOTG. yet if you are caught cheating, you are permitted to stay on the field

Red card Diving would eradicate it quick smar

 

[K1LLER7]

Valencia crosses the ball, loses it, tracks back to win it again <3

 

[Kyoufu]

Unless the baby got Hernandez's ball skills and Welbeck's finishing.

We'd get a mixed race Emile Heskey

Heskey has scored more goals than both players combined.

 

[Salazar]

We'd get a mixed race Emile Heskey

God knows there are hundreds of mixed race Dwight Yorkes walking the earth.

 

[The Friendly Monster]

We need sin bins rather than yellow cards rather than more reds.

 

[Sanjay]

The red card has relaxed united too much

I wanted 5-0

Were trying to pass it in to many times never taking a crack from 20/25 yards out.

 

[dc89]

But why weren't you moaning that you stole a point last week due in part to a bad decision after a dive? At least moan consistently about it

United get away with dissent too much IMO Valencia should have been booked there and Scholes on Monday

Dzeko V Sunderland?

I dont like to see any players go down softly. But what we've just seen and that one, the level of contact was chalk and cheese. And that says a lot.

 

[Vivalaraza]

Over playing it now.

 

[Fintan]

if you read collinas biograhy there is an amazing argument by himself and FIFA that you cannot argue with

Football is now the only sport in the world where the rules are exactly the same from park level to international level, and that is one of the beauties of it.

Can you explain why you think this is a good thing? Or at least why it would be damaging for this not to be the case?

 

[kharma45]

Over playing it now.

Yeah just what I was thinking, one pass too many.

 

[panty]

I'm sorry but QPR's Kenny looks like a man who has went through a sex change and turned himself into a woman.

 

[Willkiller]

Woah calm down

i said more than suarez dives in a later post. I also said FIFA need to grow up and give red card ability for diving. It will eradicate it.

Yeah that I agree with, and it's really nothing personal. I just remember yesteday you were talking about how you would have sent Suarez off (I can't believe i'm defending Suarez), you clearly have some bias against him. Which is fine, but as a ref I don't think it is fine. Decisions should be made on an incident-by-incident basis and how it relates to the rules of the game.

 

[Wilbur]

Heskey has scored more goals than both players combined.

Heskey has been playing for 10 times their careers combined.

 

[Choc]

We need sin bins rather than yellow cards rather than more reds.

its not enough. The only way to eridicate diving is to award the ultimate punishment.

Think of it like this, if you deny a clear goal scoring opportunity you must be sent off.

On the flip side if you 'cheat' your way to a goal, or try to, you stay on the field.

hmmmm

edit: if i was refereeing suarez i would be professoinal enough to put my dislike of the player aside. However he DID two cautionable things in my view yesterday

went on and on and on after a decision. Yellow card for dissent. And dived. Yellow card for diving. Woulda been off.

Not necessarily saying i would have looked for it , and i would have sent any other player pulling that shit off as well

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Can you explain why you think this is a good thing? Or at least why it would be damaging for this not to be the case?

It's not even true. The regulations for pitches, markings, balls, kit, officials are not held up at the park level.

 

[bjaelke]

Heskey has been playing for 10 times their careers combined.

Didn't stop Messi.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Alright, the half's over, the self-flagellation can stop now chaps.

QPR are fucking woeful and are getting about as much possession as they had when they had 11 men.

 

[Kyoufu]

Heskey has been playing for 10 times their careers combined.

Both Welbeck and Hernandez could end up being average in their careers.

Actually, they're not even amazing right now. If they don't improve they really will just be average players with a legendary manager.

 

[WJD]

Eh, I think we'd be playing better against 11 men to be honest. It'd be more exciting at least.

A gentle wind could send Young flying.

 

[dc89]

@mirrorfootball

HT Lee Mason 1-0 Manchester City

 

[Wilbur]

Didn't stop Messi.

Okay, who's trolling who

 

[Salazar]

I think consistent yellows for diving would be a wise intermediate step.

 

[Yurt]

Krasic was banned for a few games for diving last season

 

[Fintan]

It's not even true. The regulations for pitches, markings, balls, kit, officials are not held up at the park level.

Yeah I was thinking that but I was ignoring that part because I'm struggling to understand why even the general idea is a "beautiful" thing.

 

[Vivalaraza]

@FourFourTom: There's a lot of talk of conspiracy theories at Old Trafford today. I can confirm Michael Jackson IS dead - that's Antonio Valencia.

Hahahahaha.

 

[ElyrionX]

So about FIFA 12. Was playing H2H against a pretty good Chelsea. Leading 1-0 at 70 mins. Got disconnected from EA server. Game was abandoned. Checked my internet connection, everything seems fine. Logged on to EA server again within seconds and saw that the game was recorded as a loss for me. Thanks, EA!

 

[Kyoufu]

That was the referee's first red card in 36 games.

Guess he was saving it for the end of the season.