Quote Originally Posted by Coney View Post
He actually said..


Which is not unreasonable. It was more common outside the English league before the 90s - not to say that English lads did not dive - they did, but it was more common in, for instance, Italy.

Refs are partly to blame because they have allowed a situation where a forward can deliberately trail a leg or go close to the defender so that they can 'win a penalty'. The very idea of ' winning a penalty' is already wrong - that implies it is OK to do that. (This is not the same as running into the box and taking on a defender so that he is likely to have to foul to stop you - that is legit.)
aye, which is one reason why modern football has gone downhill.

you have people like andy gray analysing every small detail of a tackle and incident, trying to be clever about it. all it does is add further red tape to an already controversial sport. football is easy but the constant analysation has made it shite and complex. even an offside decision takes up 4 hours of debating.

i remember when andy gray was at sky sports and a controversial penalty decision was given. at half time he'd slow down and say 'ahhh but look theres contact, so he can go down'.

what utter rubbish?! just because there's 'contact' a player can go down? no. there has to be meaningful contact. otherwise this sport will turn into a noncontact sport in 15 years time, which it already is tbf.