half of those 90 minutes seem to be spent rolling on the ground crying like little sissies when somebody barely touches them
I love the sport, but you have a point.
Until the refs finally begin red carding idiots like that, it’s going to continue unfortunately.
Neymar of Brazil has been the biggest clown for this tactic in this World Cup.
I agree completely. The fakery is ruining the game.
But it’s not so much that they’re being sissies. It’s much worse than that. They’re trying to influence the officiating through blatant deception. That’s just flat out cheating and it’s basically accepted now as part of the game.
They should one official in the VAR booth looking at nothing but obviously faked/grossly exaggerated injuries and radio down to the referee to issue a yellow card anytime he finds one. I don’t care if at the end of a match there are only 8 players left on the field. The diving has to stop!
You’re referring to South America teams (plus Italy!). If you watch the Sweden vs England game today you saw none of that nonsense.
I think it started to backfire on those teams in this WC - it was over the top and started to be ignored, assumed to be acting. It isn’t very respected elsewhere and would be booed in English football.
The NBA has some world class divers and drama queens too.