Flopping, Diving, and Timewasting: The World Cup Way

blogs.chron.com ^ | July 03, 2006

[thehumanlynx]

I am just at the end of my rope with all this crap. We talked about it in other threads, but I'd like to hear what people think.

Diving should be snuffed out, punish the fakers. A stretcher is not required because someone gets tripped up. Gradeschoolers fall all the time and pop right back up. These are grown men, getting your foot stepped on does not require the faces made during child birth. It makes me sick.

The stretchers are a joke, and the flops are disgrace. It doesnt belong in the game. It is cheating. Anyway, I look forward to hearing the comments from the soccer fans... I just feel like FIFA showed some weak policy this WC and needs to make a few changes. 5900 yellow cards, 588 reds, and 22,456 fake falls and dives, 6200 instances of men writhing in pain as if they were a little girl that just got her foot sawed off. Not to mention 200 stretchers carrying people off the field only to see the terribly injured player hop right off the stretcher and re-enter the game....

Also, The US will have a draw on their record with the WC champs..

[thehumanlynx]

pinging you to show the soccer fans to start a little talk about it

[Bikers4Bush]

Agreed, I'm tired of the theatrics. Just play the damn game like a man.

[Paladin2]

Complain to the Human Rights Commission at the UN.

[AntiGovernment]

Portugal is out. Huge improvement.

[AntiGovernment]

Complain to the Human Rights Commission at the UN.

Naaah, they're too busy investigating the damage done to Muslim sensibilities by the Danish cartoons. Much more imporant than a pesky genocide in Darfur.

[stuartcr]

In a game where you can be running for 120 min, with no timeouts, I bet they all enjoy even a few seconds of rest.

[Mr. Mojo]

The U.S. and English team members rarely flop, from what I read yesterday.

The stretchers are a joke, and the flops are disgrace.

Drama queen theatrics. .....very European.

[always vigilant]

a sissy game. don't watch a second of it.

[Red Badger]

Get rid of the "cards" and all this drama-queen behvior will go away..........

[evets]

[MPJackal]

Penalize the faker. That will help stop it. The trouble with soccer is that EVERY penalty seems to be a "Judgement call". So with crooked refs, it won't matter.

[thehumanlynx]

thats the sentiment. "sissy game". thats what the players are making it into. It isnt in reality but thats all people see.

[Pompah]

Play the game like a Man.

"Aye there's the rub."

[T. Jefferson]

The stretchers are a joke, and the flops are disgrace. It doesnt belong in the game. Not to mention 200 stretchers carrying people off the field only to see the terribly injured player hop right off the stretcher and re-enter the game....

Emmitt Smith did it his whole career, and no one seemed to notice. Everytime he was carried off we'd place bets on the number of offensive plays till he returned.

[Gator101]

This is the number one reason this sport is not popular with Americans. I also think this is the reason it's not popular with Canadians and Australians.

When your favorite sports are American Football, Hockey, and Australian Football, the unmanly theatrics of soccer are all the more laughable.

[thehumanlynx]

you do get rest if you go for 120 mins. You rest in between plays, half time, throw ins, corners, goal kicks, when the ball is on the opposite side of the field and so on. It is not necessary, plus I would contend that they actually expend more energy clenching every muscle in their frames to sell the intense "pain" they are feeling...

[river rat]

"Drama queen theatrics. .....very European."

Uh, isn't Soccer a girls game?

With all the long hair, short shorts, tears and hugging -- I thought.........

Semper Fi

[kesg]

As Don Cherry (legendary hockey analyst) would tell hockey players, "when you get injured, don't roll around on the ground like some European soccer player. Play the game the Canadian way."

[thehumanlynx]

maybe so, but its not a widespread issue in the NFL. I think Emmitt was the benefactor of an amazing O line, switch him and Barry and guess how many yards Barry would have accumulated.