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Is it that important for players to shake hands before a match ?
Shaking hands before match
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Goring-by-Seagull
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- Jan 5, 2012
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It's just for the sportsmanship side of football. So I think it's important.
It should never be an issue. There must be lots of players who hate other players but still shake their hands before games.. The only times they don't shake (ie Suarez/Evra Bridge/Terry) is when there's a big public hoo-hah about it all and they're not shaking to show off to the media and they know all eyes are on them.
It should never be an issue. There must be lots of players who hate other players but still shake their hands before games.. The only times they don't shake (ie Suarez/Evra Bridge/Terry) is when there's a big public hoo-hah about it all and they're not shaking to show off to the media and they know all eyes are on them.
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
It's all pompous bollocks. When was the last time you saw Sunday league footballers go through all this rigmarole?
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Pointless. Organised football has been played for well over a 100 years without the need for a pre-match handshake. At times players look embarassed by it and its more of a touching (similar to a 'high 5'), than a handshake. By the mere fact of it being in place, it has magnified some poor unsportsmanlike behaviour by Suarez and arguably Ferdinand also.
I am all for shaking ahnds at the final whistle and if a player doesn't want to they have the choice of walking off the pitch.
I am all for shaking ahnds at the final whistle and if a player doesn't want to they have the choice of walking off the pitch.
Working class pride
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- Feb 14, 2010
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No, I dont see the point of the handshake before the game, it should be after the game. But we should now do it because to get rid of it will be giving in to people that cant behave themselves, just like we have to have a minutes applause because society gave into people that cant behave themselves... and we wonder why crime is as it is.
Woodchip
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Tricky Dicky
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Pointless shaking hands at the beginning - if it's for sportmanship purposes, shaking hands at the end would be far better.
Which is the time where it's entirely optional. Shows how backwards the sport's governing bodies are.
BensGrandad
New member
I think that it was a stupid idea in the fir.st place that served no useful purpose. It has now developed into a matter that is now open to abuse and causes problems. It would serve a better purpose to do it after the game as to say that is the match finished with anything that has happened or been said is now finished and stays on the pitch.
A lot has been said about Saurez refusing to shake Evras hand but nothing about Ferdinand or Welbeck not shaking his hand, its all one sided.
A lot has been said about Saurez refusing to shake Evras hand but nothing about Ferdinand or Welbeck not shaking his hand, its all one sided.
BUTTERBALL
East Stand Brighton Boyz
Adam El Abd is going to rip off Steven Gerrard's hand next Sunday during the proceedings
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Chelsea QPR was an FA Cup match and I think it was the FA that suggested foregoing the handshake routine. The Premier League yesterday, didn't.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Simples.
Suarez promised that he would shake Evras hand.
Evra said that he would shake Suarezs hand.
FA relaxed and the rest is history.
Nope. I had that in mind when I wrote this.
severnside gull
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the fact that the FA have to regulate to make it happen is a pretty clear indication that it should not
Notters' Dad
Invicta
Precisely. It's just a time-wasting farce, invented by the idiots that run the game.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
in the olden days true sportsmen would have a handshake in the tunnel on the way out where it was often not seen, for their benefit, not on the pitch for the benefit of Sky.
when I was kid we never shook hands after the match, but the captain would make us give "3 cheers for Hollingbury Hawks (or whoever) Hip Hip......" (we never did this against Melford as they were wankers (you can't beat holding a grudge for 30 years!))