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Quote from: Norfolk N Chance on December 10, 2012, 01:54:18 pmQuote from: BobG on December 10, 2012, 01:52:02 pmI don't watch Match of the Day (MoTD? 30 second goal highlight of the day more like. That's not togger is it? I don't listen to the radio. I haven't supported England for 13 years now for reasons some of you know already. I don't read about footy much either. I loathe a lot of what goes in footy nowadays. I watch the Rovers. I come on here. That's it. Oh. And I don't have Sky either. The architect of prostitution.BobGCampionship and lower league games much more enjoyableIs that the league for gay footballers?
Quote from: BobG on December 10, 2012, 01:52:02 pmI don't watch Match of the Day (MoTD? 30 second goal highlight of the day more like. That's not togger is it? I don't listen to the radio. I haven't supported England for 13 years now for reasons some of you know already. I don't read about footy much either. I loathe a lot of what goes in footy nowadays. I watch the Rovers. I come on here. That's it. Oh. And I don't have Sky either. The architect of prostitution.BobGCampionship and lower league games much more enjoyable
I don't watch Match of the Day (MoTD? 30 second goal highlight of the day more like. That's not togger is it? I don't listen to the radio. I haven't supported England for 13 years now for reasons some of you know already. I don't read about footy much either. I loathe a lot of what goes in footy nowadays. I watch the Rovers. I come on here. That's it. Oh. And I don't have Sky either. The architect of prostitution.BobG
This would help my enjoyment no end. I hope we were one of the clubs to back this...http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20679867
Reading this thread, it looks like there's only me and a few then who still watch England, MOTD, Euro Games and Sky Sports. I wouldn't have guessed that with all the knowledge of Prem players, clubs and games that's shown on here
On the falling down when touched I do have, , some sympathy with the players. There was an incident on Saturday where an attacker rode a tackle in the box, which probably was a foul, stayed on his feet but in doing so the ball had got away from him and the keeper got there first. Did the referee pull it back for the penalty, no.Graham Poll was on the radio with Sam Alladyce and Sam was asked whether they encourage players to fall over when they are touched in the box, Sam said he would stop when referees gave penalties when player didn’t fall over. Graham Poll struggled to remember an incident where he had given a penalty for a tackle when the player had not fallen over.Now being an old Centre half myself, every Sunday morning I attempted to cheat by blocking or pulling or pushing or standing on someone’s laces to stop them just enough that I didn’t give a free kick away, but gained an advantage. Hell sometimes I would deliberately foul my opponent to try and put them on edge for the rest of the game. This in a game I couldn’t remember whether we won or lost and knowing us we probably lost.Did I (or any other defender) cheat more than an attacking player who dived? The cheating has always been there it is just magnified and glorified more than ever. My thought is that it is the increasing coverage and tribal nature of football in recent years that has encouraged this.
I'm completely with BST and graingrover on this.I decided to watch the Manc Derby yesterday. After 10 secons Valencia threw himself to the ground after not being touched and rolled around clutching his leg. Luckily the ref wasn't conned this time.Cue Fergie berating the 4th official. Every time a manure player was tackled he stayed down feigning a near death experience.Players diving used to be confined to the penalty area, now it's all over the pitch. Dave Jones comes on the tele blaming the ref for not playing on when surrounded by irate Wendies.The game at the higher level is disgusting.And the fans who buy into this shite, screaming obscenities at the ref or opposing players with murder in their eyes. It makes me sick.Thank God there's still the type of fans like us (and most 'lower league' supporters) at Chesterfield when Lewis Guy did one of his ridiculous dives. To a man we had a go at him for diving.One of the things I liked about our previous manger was his stance against any form of cheating or ref intimidation. They should all be like him in that respect.And what happened to the Respect policy? More empty soundbites.