[Football] Time for the FA to take action against serial cheats?

[Sheebo]

I don’t care who they play for but it’s tiresome seeing the same players cheating week in week out - surely time to start dishing out some proper punishment..? The player in this example is widely known as the biggest diver in the football league and even got his club promoted from it and avoided relegation several times purely because of his cheating... it’s simply not fair on football clubs who don’t cheat and time for action to be taken against these players...

 

[Seasider78]

 

[A1X]

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[Sheebo]

It’s those pathetic wide eyes that just make the **** so punchable.. Reminds me of crazy eyes from Orange is the new black...

Time to ban him for a season or 2 - it would affect Man City reserves chances next season but it should be done for the good of the game and FairPlay...

 

[TSB]

Phone needs a charge, Sheebs.

 

[Sheebo]

Phone needs a charge, Sheebs.

I also heard from a Watford mate that the whole of Vicarage Road were singing ‘we heard you ran from the Brighton, ran from the Briiiiiiighton’ which amused me tbh....!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Palace had 5 bookings which means a fine, doesn't it?

 

[KZNSeagull]

Palace had 5 bookings which means a fine, doesn't it?

They only have to pay 2p in the pound though, surely?

 

[Weststander]

Standards have changed in no time at all.

5 years ago, dives by Ashley Young, Suarez, Rooney, etc, were called dives by the football world (except from supporters of the club containing the diver).

Now even old school players like Shearer and virtually everyone else condone this cheating with:
"The defender shouldn't made that tackle"
"That challenge asked questions of the officials"
"Clever use of the trailing leg"
"There may not have been much content, but ....".

Unfortunately, that's it, this cheating is here to stay.

Often it's ridiculous. The attacker makes a completely illogical run in not going directly in on goal, taking them in a trajectory to clash with the incoming defender making a natural run.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

It’s those pathetic wide eyes that just make the **** so punchable.. Reminds me of crazy eyes from Orange is the new black...

Time to ban him for a season or 2 - it would affect Man City reserves chances next season but it should be done for the good of the game and FairPlay...

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He'll still find a way to watch it

 

[Mackenzie]

I heard Watford sing “same old Zaha, always diving” amongst other things. They know.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Probably wouldn’t do us any favours. Izquierdo and Knockaert are also partial to a bit diving. They aren’t quite as good at it.

 

[severnside gull]

Two blatant dives today - just a week after he makes a lengthy statement saying he's misunderstood and never tries to con the referee

 

[lawros left foot]

Two blatant dives today - just a week after he makes a lengthy statement saying he's misunderstood and never tries to con the referee

He is misunderstood,
If you run at superduper sonic speed , even the breeze caused by the beat of a butterflies wing, is enough to unbalance the worlds fastest ever man.

The diving tw@

 

[A mex eyecan]

Two blatant dives today - just a week after he makes a lengthy statement saying he's misunderstood and never tries to con the referee

The irony is that he genuinely believes that crap. The truth is though that he is so thick he genuinely believes that crap.
He is just a cheat, plain and simple but he doesn't know it.
it's not his fault is it?

 

[Sheebo]

Standards have changed in no time at all.

5 years ago, dives by Ashley Young, Suarez, Rooney, etc, were called dives by the football world (except from supporters of the club containing the diver).

Now even old school players like Shearer and virtually everyone else condone this cheating with:
"The defender shouldn't made that tackle"
"That challenge asked questions of the officials"
"Clever use of the trailing leg"
"There may not have been much content, but ....".

Unfortunately, that's it, this cheating is here to stay.

Often it's ridiculous. The attacker makes a completely illogical run in not going directly in on goal, taking them in a trajectory to clash with the incoming defender making a natural run.

So true. ‘He has every right to go down’ is the one that gets me. **** off!!!!

 

[Sheebo]

Probably wouldn’t do us any favours. Izquierdo and Knockaert are also partial to a bit diving. They aren’t quite as good at it.

Have a think about it man!

And no, they’re nowhere near his level or amount of dives if you put our whole team together.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Even though he would have dived anyway, given the opportunities to do so, what makes today's even worse is that it was premeditated, he had every intention of doing so before he even put his boots on.
Why? because of the Watford diving mascot, which was hilarious, but Zaha cried like a baby even though the game had finished.
I am certain he done it today because of that and if he had got the penalties or free kicks and won the match he would have gone straight to that mascot and/or Watford fans.
But it totally backfired on him today.

 

[The Birdman]

Not me guv

 

[Da Man Clay]

Have a think about it man!

And no, they’re nowhere near his level or amount of dives if you put our whole team together.

Oh they are. Some very blue and white specks there Sheebs. Sorry but Izquierdo in particular throws at least one out a game. He’s got a bit lucky with the last couple of penalties given the way he throws himself over.

Zaha is comfortably the best at it but you aren’t watching the game if you don’t think those two specifically go over particularly elaborately.