That incident is nothing like the Vardy one. Vardy had to move into the player to make the contact. Not saying the Walcott pen wasn't soft but the tackle from behind in the box is the classic pen, refs will always give that one. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Vardy's cheating didn't prevail in the end.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
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I can't understand why a player would want to do it, on a personal level. That and the rolling around being a cissy. I could never do that. We were always taught the opposite, pretend it didn't hurt even if your leg is hanging off. That was rugby though. Players with boxing physiques rolling around crying or flinging themselves in the air, it's embarrassing more than anything. Maybe it would be better if some sort of weekly round up in the media mercilessly took the piss out of the offenders and humiliated them to such a degree it wouldn't be worth the grief. Hound them out. Tech would be ideal but the corrupt bastards in charge have been dragging their heels on that for years.
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The press try to but it's obviously biased so hounding out doesn't work. Gerrard and Rooney were never pulled up on it. Everyone won't have the same code of ethics so it's really up to the governing bodies.
It's part and parcel of the game, they are taught to gain an advantage for their team, if a player leaves his leg hanging out fall over it, that's the way it is, the onus is on players not to make mistakes.
We've had a fair few players like that ourselves, you just have to accept it in the same way you have to accept you can't get away with the same tackles you could 15 years ago.
The way I see it that's not that different, Cazorla went down like a sack of Spuds, pretty sure noone said a thing then, we do it and so does everyone else.
Mahrez also made the most of it but actually had his foot caught but they didn't get that one.
Thing is people on her are always going to be biased, almost every single week people complain about the ref the missed penalties, sendings off etc
For every decision you deem wrong there's probably one equally wrong for the opposition that noone on here acknowledges.
If the refs, the pundits and the papers agree about certain decisions but the only ones disagreeing are the Arsenal fans it tells you everything you need to know.
Hence why we need replays in the game. One of their players went through on goal and was wrongly waved off side. Luckily he didn't score but if he did it would have been the wrong call.
We got away with the Mahrez decision as well. People say the sending off was soft but I think the ref made a precedent for himself with that Coquelin booking and the Kos booking. Cynical fouls that disrupt play and stop the counter weren't tolerated so Simpson had to go.
End of the day, we just need to play better so these small decisions aren't so costly. Monreal and Kos were really off their game yesterday.
Thank God we won, however hardly an inspiring performance against 10 men. Looks to me like Spurs title favourites.
Totally agree, if you perform and play well these decisions rarely make a difference, problem is we don't really perform, we we didn't until they were reduced to 10 and couldn't get out of their half as they had no outlet.
Yeah we definitely need to improve, if we continue as we are we won't win the title. We've had a few decent spells this season so I'm convinced there are a few more gears left in this team and I hope and expect us to improve, we simply have to because we have quite a difficult run-in.
I'm surprised we are seen as favourites because I think we have been unconvincing for a while, every game just seems to be a slog right now.
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