QUOTE(Duke Red @ Nov 13 2011, 06:41 PM)
Hers my take on cheating. These days players are motivated to do whatever they can to win. Clubs offer bonuses for winning, scoring goals, appearances and so on. I also agree that you can't call Suarez a cheat for stopping the ball on the line if you applaud Solksjaer for what he did and I'm sure some of you do for some bizzare reason. Please don't be hypocritical here. I'm sure many of our rivals would love to call Suarez a cheat for he does go down easy but ask yourself this, is it not the same with your players? Stop focusing on instances where your players are on the attack. Have you not seen your defenders go down after being brushed from behind by a player applying pressure on him? How's this not the same?
So now, does going down under a little contact constitute cheating or does going down under no contact warrant that label? They can't both be the same.
For the record, I miss the days when players would do all they can to stay on their feet. Football was a little more honest back then. One thing I admired about Gary Lineker was his reluctance to go down. He'd do all he could to stay on his feet but footballers these days don't. If you want to call someone like Suarez a cheat so be it but don't ignore the times your players go down easily. Defenders do it all the time when pressured from behind in their own box. They go down and immediately clutch the ball coercing the ref to award a foul. Is this not true?
i agree with you... whoever players who DELIBERATELY break a rule are cheats.. be it in my team or my rival's team... be it defenders or forwards..
Fandi Othman just now resort to blatantly dive in lowly Cambodia's penalty box to gain a penalty ..cheeky *******... the ref rightly call a yellow card...
but if the ref are fooled and my team get a penalty.. and win the tournament for example... i will be happy for it all the same...
since that is my opinion, then i also have no choice to accept it as part and parcel of the game if other team do it against my team...
but i still considers all of them as cheats..
This post has been edited by aressandro10: Nov 13 2011, 07:20 PM