[Football] I'm done with players feigning injuries

[Deadly Danson]

It's getting ridiculous. These preening, overpaid, jumped up cheats feigning injuries all over the place. A special place in hell reserved for those holding their heads when they have been brushed by another player and are clearly fine or those who are punching the ground in apparent agony and then get up cured when the game doesn't get stopped.
Surely it's time for one physio to be allowed on whilst the game is going on and treat the player and become "part of the pitch". 80% of injuries would miraculously clear up when the player knows they aren't wasting time. If its obviously very serious then of course the game can be stopped at the refs discretion. I can't see a downside.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Head injuries and punching the ground repeatedly in 'pain'. Should mean a 10 minute 'recovery period' with an injury sub.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Deadly Danson Doesn’t Do Diving, Dropping, Deadness, Deceit or Deception.

 

[Bodian]

It's getting ridiculous. These preening, overpaid, jumped up cheats feigning injuries all over the place. A special place in hell reserved for those holding their heads when they have been brushed by another player and are clearly fine or those who are punching the ground in apparent agony and then get up cured when the game doesn't get stopped.
Surely it's time for one physio to be allowed on whilst the game is going on and treat the player and become "part of the pitch". 80% of injuries would miraculously clear up when the player knows they aren't wasting time. If its obviously very serious then of course the game can be stopped at the refs discretion. I can't see a downside.

Lamptey going down holding his head because of a light brush from a finger - but only after he had run another 10 yards, crossed the ball - and seen Liverpool win it and start a break. Didn't look great.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Lamptey going down holding his head because of a light brush from a finger - but only after he had run another 10 yards, crossed the ball - and seen Liverpool win it and start a break. Didn't look great.

Yep, embarrassing. We are as bad as any team. Cucurella recently has been a particular offender.

 

[Icy Gull]

Must be part of daily training at Liverpool

“If you get tackled, let out an ear piercing scream, and writhe around on the ground, now let’s try it again with feeling”

Lamptey got a finger in the eye btw so justified in going down if it affected his vision. I have seen the replay

Only one team was cheating with feigned injuries today

 

[The Optimist]

Lamptey going down holding his head because of a light brush from a finger - but only after he had run another 10 yards, crossed the ball - and seen Liverpool win it and start a break. Didn't look great.

But would appear to be genuine. Lamptey going down only benefitted Liverpool. We had the ball and Lamptey would have got it back if he didn’t go down. Also as he went down a while after the incident he can’t possibly have hoped to win a free kick.

I remember Graham Taylor (I think) saying on a commentary once that getting kicked, knocked etc can hurt quite a lot for a short period. I guess a bit like stubbing your toe.

 

[B-right-on]

Or the thing that irritates me is players who have obviously touched the ball last, trying to con the ref that it's their ball. Henderson did that today when it clearly came off him and 3/4 of the stadium saw it when it was a corner to us.
Why? Twunt.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

They're all as bad as each other and the laws have to change.

But it matters a lot more when we're not winning.

Liverpool, Brentford and Man Utd fans all very happy with "modern football" today...

 

[Deadly Danson]

Must be part of daily training at Liverpool

“If you get tackled, let out an ear piercing scream, and writhe around on the ground, now let’s try it again with feeling”

Lamptey got a finger in the eye btw so justified in going down if it affected his vision. I have seen the replay

Only one team was cheating with feigned injuries today

Oh come on - Lampety was up 10 seconds later. I'm not having it. We are as bad as any team.

 

[Icy Gull]

Oh come on - Lampety was up 10 seconds later. I'm not having it. We are as bad as any team.

I saw the replay and beg to differ

 

[The Optimist]

Must be part of daily training at Liverpool

“If you get tackled, let out an ear piercing scream, and writhe around on the ground, now let’s try it again with feeling”

Lamptey got a finger in the eye btw so justified in going down if it affected his vision. I have seen the replay

Only one team was cheating with feigned injuries today

I remember CMS getting stick for going down easily in front of the away fans once. He got a finger in the eye and had a hell of a shiner after the game.

 

[Weststander]

Inevitable threads/posts after yet another EPL loss.

Dean pinged all the ‘in ya face’ niggly fouls and foot up (boots by faces) today, as Potter tried in vain to turn us into disrupters, trying something new to end the losing run.


Regarding exaggeration, the genie in this country was let out of the bottle 30 years ago when Klinsmann and other imports brought play acting. He got away with it, in fact he was lauded by the London-biased media for his “professionalism” and the rest is history. No going back, the global game is rife with it in every match.

 

[Deadly Danson]

I saw the replay and beg to differ

Just watched it again in case my memory cheated and it didn't. He gets a poke in the eye and is absolutely fine without treatment a few seconds later after going down. Big babies the lot of them.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Head injuries and punching the ground repeatedly in 'pain'. Should mean a 10 minute 'recovery period' with an injury sub.

Hmm…I wouldn’t give them an injury sub for punching the ground in supposed pain…but they can go off the field for ten minutes….there was a time when this action meant it was serious these days it’s because they’ve probably chipped a finger nail

 

[Deadly Danson]

Or the thing that irritates me is players who have obviously touched the ball last, trying to con the ref that it's their ball. Henderson did that today when it clearly came off him and 3/4 of the stadium saw it when it was a corner to us.
Why? Twunt.

Agree. Drives me mad. Players try to cheat with every fibre of their being.

 

[willalbion]

Lamptey going down holding his head because of a light brush from a finger - but only after he had run another 10 yards, crossed the ball - and seen Liverpool win it and start a break. Didn't look great.

To be fair, I think he got a finger in the eye. Although there's plenty of our fellas Cucu' I'm looking at you who do it. And yeah it's an embarrasment.

 

[wolfie]

the worst thing is when they beat the ground as if they need an ambulance immediately, then jump up when the whistle is blown.

 

[Albion 4ever]

Literally the easiest solution to this issue is to copy Rugby. Physios allowed on to treat players during the game. Game continues as normal.

The number of players rolling around in fake agony would reduce by 90% overnight.


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[happypig]

At around 3.25 tomorrow one of the Southampton players will go down in "agony", the physio will come on to treat him and all the other players will rush to the sideline to get a drink.
They do it every game.