[Football] Aston Villa throwing themselves to the floor.

[Weststander]

5live earlier spoke in detail about the injustice to Villa i.e. should’ve been a pen.

Not a word about a team diving throughout.

Media narratives are to be ignored, you get far more sense and a range of views on a fans forum.

 

[Taybha]

After Welbeck got clattered on Saturday for the penalty, there was a split second where he thought about staying on his feet , then realised the Premier league plays football under different rules and lobbed himself to the floor , just in case on the off chance it was reviewed by VAR !

Players are coached how to perform under VAR rules , every team and every player is aware of the fact that if your honest in football tackle wise then your at a disadvantage to everyone else !

Sad but ultimately true , VAR has completely ruined the spontaneity of football , I hate it even though we've been on the end of some favourable decisions, it's ripping the heart out of football .

Yup players dived before VAR but it's so widespread now it's laughable and is just not cricket .

Some players are better at it than others and VAR VAR doesn't take that into account when fishing out dodgy penalties and free kicks , it just looks at the contact .

Pffffffffffffffft

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

I don't mind players going down when, if they made any effort, they could stay on their feet.

What I hate is players clutching the wrong part of their body in agony. So Grealish... why clutch your un-kicked leg ?

 

[dazzer6666]

https://twitter.com/ahmedidn/status/1333554299683680266?s=21

 

[El Turi]

Villa’s main tactic is to try win free kicks around the penalty area. They did it for the whole of last season but somehow referees still haven’t cottoned on to it.

It’s also laughable that they complain about VAR when they are only still in the Premier League because goalline technology didn’t work properly last season.

 

[Surf's Up]

Standard Villa tactic = throw yourself to the ground whenever you're within set piece distance of the opponents goal and score from resultant set piece. Grealish is the exponent extraordinaire of this tactic. Works well for them.

And this is a superb example, look at the positioning of the Fall, sorry, foul.....

https://twitter.com/kianlufc/status/1333521165449621514?s=20

 

[schmunk]

Grealish is a bigger cheat than Zaha. There, I’ve said it. Greasy haired gravity whore GHGW.

It's not just that - for all his on-field faults, Zaha appears to be actually quite a nice guy. Grealish has proven again and again, on-field and off, that he is just a dribbly bag of shit.

 

[Gwylan]

I do wonder if players, not just Grealish but every player who likes to take a tumble, looks back on the replays and thinks "oof, what was I playing at?"

Or if they've got zero shame at all.

I presume the latter.

When James Maddison got sent off at the Amex a couple of years ago he did say something like that. But that's the only time I've heard a player say it

 

[Papa Lazarou]

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[Nameless]

Maupay and Connolly also do it on a regular basis.

Maybe some players are more renowned than others, but I would be hesitant to single anyone out. Pot/kettle.

Accept the point however, you really only need a pair of eyes to see they do it on a far more consistent basis than the rest of the league. I can't recall of the top of my head once when we've done it this season (scored a goal from a set piece which shouldn't have been a set piece that is..)

 

[bhafc99]

Villa’s main tactic is to try win free kicks around the penalty area. They did it for the whole of last season but somehow referees still haven’t cottoned on to it.

It’s also laughable that they complain about VAR when they are only still in the Premier League because goalline technology didn’t work properly last season.

100% this.

We can all moan at the SEGW falling over from minimal contact, but at least he’s generally trying to play the ball when it happens.

All Grealish does is deliberately slow down or dummy a motion, in order to draw an unnatural conclusion and make it look like a foul has been committed - when if he actually tried to play the move properly, it wouldn’t have been.

It’s cynical, calculated and deliberate, whereas Zaha tends to just make the most of an opportunity - more than most players.

Can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but I find Zaha less objectionable than Sock Boy.


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[Nameless]

Ladies. Pull up your knickers and make me a cup of tea.

If Grealish was a Brighton boy, in our team, we'd have 24 hour boners. Fact.

Genuinely wouldn't want him anywhere near our team..

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Genuinely wouldn't want him anywhere near our team..

If he were a Brighton boy, playing for his local team?

I presume you're camped outside Connolly's house right now waving 'Connolly OUT!' placard?

 

[Nameless]

If he were a Brighton boy, playing for his local team?

I presume you're camped outside Connolly's house right now waving 'Connolly OUT!' placard?

Struggling to see your point.. Are you suggesting Connolly is as bad as Grealish when it comes to diving? If so that's ridiculous.

I wouldn't want Grealish in our team if he was born on the pier. Overrated cheat and I think we have as good as or better midfielders in Trossard, Lallana ect..

 

[LlcoolJ]

Ladies. Pull up your knickers and make me a cup of tea.

If Grealish was a Brighton boy, in our team, we'd have 24 hour boners. Fact.

Rubbish Hazza.

He's a disgraceful cheat. Wouldn't want him anywhere near our team.

He epitomises everything that's shit about football.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Struggling to see your point.. Are you suggesting Connolly is as bad as Grealish when it comes to diving? If so that's ridiculous.

I wouldn't want Grealish in our team if he was born on the pier. Overrated cheat and I think we have as good as or better midfielders in Trossard, Lallana ect..

Do you genuinely think Lallana and Trossard are as good or better than Grealish?! Wow.

 

[el punal]

Ladies. Pull up your knickers and make me a cup of tea.

If Grealish was a Brighton boy, in our team, we'd have 24 hour boners. Fact.

But he’s not, so at the moment I’m allowed to despise the little shit. By the way, I’m too old to have a boner never mind for 24 hours.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

If he were a Brighton boy, playing for his local team?

I presume you're camped outside Connolly's house right now waving 'Connolly OUT!' placard?

There is no comparison in the scale Harry. That’s the point being made on this thread. Saying what about this or that player doing it occasionally does not negate the point about the industrial scale of cheating indulged in by Grealish and Trezeguet.

 

[Nameless]

Do you genuinely think Lallana and Trossard are as good or better than Grealish?! Wow.

What you mean Lallana who's won the champions league, premier league and numerous caps for England who carried Southampton through the divisions.. Yes.

As for Trossard I think he is basically Grealish without the cheating, scores and assists, takes players on is capped for a far better national side. I'd also put Bissouma in the catagory of as good as if not better despite playing different positions.

 

[pb21]

The only way it will change is if it stops working.

At the moment, falling over like you have been shot or are having a heart attack at the slightest contact, is a valid tactic; free kicks and penalties await.