maltaseagull
Well-known member
The constant wrestling between players in the penalty area for corners and free kicks. If this happens outside the area it's a free kick so why is it allowed to continue in the area?
Stan Feckin Collymore
I would be absolutely DELIGHTED if one day, a referee had the NUTS to point out that as all the huddling team are in their own half and outside the centre circle, the opponents may kick off when they please. It would be absolutely CORKING to see the expression on the face of some idiot like Steve Cotterill as the opposing striker received the ball and gently lobbed it into Forest's net for the lead while his players were busy giving each other man-love and pointless platitudes.
Oh, and I also hate it that players constantly put the ball out these days for a team mate/ opponent who's sat down looking forlorn and hurt because he has the slightest twinge.
I pay to watch football, not some overpaid hatstand gingerly rubbing his calf because thirty seconds earlier he brushed against someone's boot while fraudulently trying to win a free kick. Then the physio comes on, does absolutely SOD ALL, and the player hobbles off theatrically, before inevitably sprinting on again the second he's permitted to, like nothing had ever happened.
Or- even worse- the player who's limping around, approximately 4cm from the touchline, who waves at the ref and then sits his arse down, ON the pitch, demanding treatment and the stopping of the game. Get OFF the pitch if you want treatment, you lazy prima-donna. I wish more referees would tell them this, rather than sucking up to them and stopping the game.
similar things in football each drive me nuts....
when a sub comes on and does a catholic cross on his body.
when someone scores or the game finishes and the player looks to sky thanking god.
besides the sillyness of a bearded male archetype "above" - the thought that he had a part in ones goal, coming on, final score is completely nuts.
The Player can't leave the pitch without the referees permission, so if he did leave for treatment he could potentially get booked.