What's the difference between game management and blatant cheating? I'm struggling to differentiate between the two.
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[Football] Game management
- Thread starter Binney on acid
- Start date
- Oct 17, 2008
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A strong referee, usually.
Fulham and Villa have been doing it for several seasons on steroids. Literally multiple lying head injuries per game.
Before them, Warnock and Pulis were shocking.
The answer: make damn sure you score first.
Before them, Warnock and Pulis were shocking.
The answer: make damn sure you score first.
Weird refereeing performance. Actually gave the keeper a yellow for timewasting in the first then let him (and their number 7, 19, 52) get away with murder.
Cheating ****s.
Cheating ****s.
It’s always the same. Ref’s never have the guts to produce a second yellow for time wasting. This is they’d only need to do it now and again and the message would get through that it’s too much of a risk and it would stamp out all this anti football time wasting play acting rubbish.
This.
First half was great - second half shite. Knew the moment the keeper was booked he would get away with anything in the second half.
Spineless ****.
Shame we didn't get a second. The way they reacted in the few minutes after the first was revealing. A second soon after would almost certainly have seen a handful of further bookings.
Forster's Armband
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The whole booking the keeper thing is pointless. They will never give them 2 x yellows for time wasting.
The "dark arts" are part of the game and sadly to compete we need to be better at it.
The "dark arts" are part of the game and sadly to compete we need to be better at it.
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HellBilly
Meh, it’s what we would do in that position.
- Feb 22, 2014
- 2,866
I’ve thought for a while that any player going down holding his head the ref should call on physios. Don’t ask him if he wants them, neither of you are experts. If he has a head knock he should get immediate treatment. Duty of care and reckon we would see less of it if they have do go off every time.
But we don't, not really. Not to that degree. We're just amateurs.
Especially as they now have that 30 second off the pitch rule. They would have been down to 10 men for about 10 minutes!
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HellBilly
More fool us sometimes then
I'd hate to see it though.
Second half Roma managed that game brilliantly with very little gamesmanship.
We did make it easier for them by being totally toothless in front of goal mind you.
We did make it easier for them by being totally toothless in front of goal mind you.
Gross gave it a shot at the end of the first half. Embarrassing. I don't want any of our players to behave like that.
tigertim68
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- Sep 3, 2012
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Quite agree
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,669
If that's what you need to do to win then f*** Europe
Forster's Armband
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Sorry but that is not the game I watched.
We didn't take our chances that is true but Roma fell over, wasted time, argued with the ref, fained injury and tired to goad our players into reactions.
Roma had an offside kick or foul at around 80 mins. Mancini lines up to kick it...waits 20 seconds then steps over it and leaves it for the keeper. Ref blew up went charging towards him while reaching for his pocket and then bottled it when he realised Mancini was already booked and he'd have to send him off. It's not in shot on the TV coverage.