[Football] I'm done with players feigning injuries

[Weststander]

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.

Covered on Talkshite, Stains literally do this.

 

[Mortdecai]

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Yeh, i'd go for the rugby rule of physio on the pitch to treat injuries.

It's far from the perfect solution, but something has to be done.

Faking a head injury should carry a suspension of 6 months or something

 

[Swansman]

It is very annoying indeed.

Unfortunately any team not doing it will have a big disadvantage so some kind of rule change is probably the only way to deal with the issue.

 

[maresfield seagull]

Thank you mordecai someone was going on about Palarse wearing Brazil kit
Then us doing it yesterday
those white socks have confirmed my hunch All was not as it seemed

 

[rippleman]

Feigning a head injury would stop overnight if we had the same rule as the egg chasing and any player suffering or claiming to suffer a head injury had to leave the pitch for an independent assessment for concussion.

Sub allowed during the assessment but hopefully the disruption would reduce this particular type of cheating.

It would be so simple to introduce and implement. If the clubs and their managers won't stop it, then it is down to the FA to take action. (And now I realise the flaw in my cunning plan )

 

[Hamilton]

And the race goes on. Perhaps in some cases it shouldn't, but the athletes get on with it.

 

[Bakero]

Keita took it a new level on Saturaday by applying the bag of ice to his phantom injury after getting subbed.