Suarez,suarez,suarez what can i say?

[mountainsport]

Hi All,

Did you ever think that Mike Tyson was a true and good role model to the footballers of today? And that first question goes to........yes! sir you over there with the red boxing gloves on.

Mountainsport.

 

[flecc]

It certainly seems true, some of today's footballers are little short of crazy in the way they behave, and that Suarez action was an example. The roots of this go back a long way though, and the clampdown should have been then. I'm speaking of the way the Italian international teams of many decades ago used any concealed dirty trick they could get away with to gain advantage, giving rise to the "professional foul". And what a daft term that is, any foul in sport can never be professional. Add to that the increasingly silly money that footballers are paid and it's perhaps little wonder that some feel they are godlike in their invulnerability. Trouble is that extreme behaviour infects the game at all levels, even local amateur games suffering at times, and it spills over into serious civil crime offences.

Probably only much harsher penalties can cleanse the game now, whole season bans for example instead of the odd match bans currently dealt out.

 

[Taff]

Spot on Flecc. Exactly the same as in our normal day to day lives - let something go and soon it becomes a 'norm'. Thin end of the wedge.

 

[Croxden]

So if enough of us buy and use S class bikes it will be OK?

 

[flecc]

So if enough of us buy and use S class bikes it will be OK?

Only sort of! Those inverted commas around Taff's word 'norm' express the doubtful and/or undesirable status that remains.

 

[the_killjoy]

Yes, and we have that terrible commentary term of a player being praised for having 'won a foul'.

Mind you those lads are strong ~ could you push a 14 stone man over with your little finger, they can.

 

[smudger1956]

I am really loosing interest in football, the only game in the world were you can cheat on a regular basis and get away with it, I also think the Refs should not only carry Red and Yellow cards, they should have the authority to dish out Equity cards to the player who is doing the best amateur dramatics after a 'professional' foul.........

 

[mountainsport]

I am really loosing interest in football, the only game in the world were you can cheat on a regular basis and get away with it, I also think the Refs should not only carry Red and Yellow cards, they should have the authority to dish out Equity cards to the player who is doing the best amateur dramatics after a 'professional' foul.........

Or stop major companies like Colgate from using players to advertise their product.

Mountainsport.

 

[neptune]

Or force players to wear muzzles.

 

[mountainsport]

Or force players to wear muzzles.

When money is involved not even a steel muzzle would stop their teeth from penetrating through.

Mountainsport.

 

[Taff]

I watch football much less than I used to. I also hate that phrase: 'won a foul'.

 

[the_killjoy]

How often have you seen a player go down and thought that if he had stayed up he woulf have been through.

Mind you it is always funny when some one doesn't go down from a real foul and everyone stands still waiting for the whistle whilst he carrys on and sets up goal. So any players don't seem to have learnt the basic rule of play to the whistle.

It is these sort of threads that make me realize I have turned into a moany old git.