Taking a dive.?
should FIFA introduce a sin bin ruling for players who take dives. FRom watching top level football i can see where followers of other codes see football players as whimps.The habbit of going down and making out you have been injured is a practice that needs to be removed from the game.And i was wondering if taking a dive meant 10mins off the feild of play may encourage players to get on with the game instead of oscar winning performances of a dying animal.
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i think they should be yllow carded. drogba and robben should have to start everymatch with an automatic yellow card.
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I totally agree. The game is already long enough at 90mins each way, plus stoppage time.
I would like to see a more flowing game.
If I wanted to watch bad acting, i’d go to a Tom Cruise movie
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If during the game a dive is notices it should be an instant red card as it is cheating, if it is found to be a dive after the fact ie video replay then the player should be susspended for 2 games, it would soon stop all of the diving
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I would definitely make it more strict, players like Inzaghi made us hate the game more then truly enjoy it.
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If you mean the player when he try to desive the refree by acting as been fouled , It’s the worst sportmanship can have because cheat isn’t a sport caracter and I think FIFA should take a hard action to prevent this act although many big and famous player sometimes use it when they can’t find the legal way .
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i like the idea and I do think dives should be punished but I think the card system should be used more against it so two times and you are out of the game is a good method of stopping it if enforced.
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wel wot is that
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I don’t know about—
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it will still need to be decided by referees and they are only human They will get it wrong lots of the time !!!
i have seen many pundits watch a replay 5 times and still disagree.
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Diving is usualy a retaliation to refs who dont call a foul on players who are hindered, commendably dont fall down, and then lose the ball. I hate it when a game comes to when you need to fall in order for the ref to blow the whistle.
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