since when does contact mean its a foul??

[mikeg]

people that dont play the game have a strange opinion of what makes someone fall over. i wouldn't have even felt what alot of people nowadays call penalties. seems the players focus on and look for contact and then go down and no one calls them a cheat. people also think contact = penalty. fookin crazy.

finally somebody who knows what they are talking about, if contact = penalty you would have to award a penalty for virtually everytime a cross was put into the penalty area if a defender was leaning on an attacker

like i said the games full of fans and referees who have never played the game, brainwashed by the cheats that now plague our game, its quite sad really that this is what it has come too

[Shaggy]

I said in the match thread last night that it was a total dive. Woodgate didn't even make contact with Ronaldo - Ronaldo saw the challenge coming and made contact with him by flinging his leg out. Cheating ****.

It sickens me that pundits like Redknapp and Wilkins are agreeing that this is a pen. Old skool (well, Wilkins anyway) players and still they think this is a pen?

It was the same with Kalou's cheating to win a pen out of Micah Richards the other week. They all said that was a pen too. Laughable.

[mikeg]

Yes, Diego did start the name calling, however saying you'd snap his ****ing neck, is a really a bit silly.

im just explaining the reality of what would happen if a stranger walked into my house and said to me what he is said to me on here

nothing silly about it really it was just a factual statement

[mikeg]

I said in the match thread last night that it was a total dive. Woodgate didn't even make contact with Ronaldo - Ronaldo saw the challenge coming and made contact with him by flinging his leg out. Cheating ****.

It sickens me that pundits like Redknapp and Wilkins are agreeing that this is a pen. Old skool (well, Wilkins anyway) players and still they think this is a pen?

It was the same with Kalou's cheating to win a pen out of Micah Richards the other week. They all said that was a pen too. Laughable.

its because the reward fot the cheating is so great, a free blast at the goal from 12 yards, where as 9/10 if they stayed on their feet and dont cheat they arent gonna score anyways

its about time the penalty spot was moved further back IMO and made a bit more difficult, something to discourage these cheating *******s from running into the box with the soul aim of winning a penalty

[Diego]

this is what happens when pricks like you, and referees like you, have an opinion on a game that you no doubt have never played in your life

and he started with the name calling, the funny thing being if he was in the same room as me calliing me it id snap his ****ing neck, another keyboard warrior

im just explaining the reality of what would happen if a stranger walked into my house and said to me what he is said to me on here

nothing silly about it really it was just a factual statement

not to start an all out war but you really are something mr. know it all. your like marky when he was called a little (something), he actually had to point out how tall he was in real life as for name calling before you call on me again, i called you a **** cause thinking you know better that the rest. ohh and by the way whos the internet warrior hiding behind the keyboard claiming he's a neck snapper...

[PTP]

the funny thing is on, on the other side of the coin - 'real sunday league football' - because of these cheating *******s diving every week I'm getting ****ing snapped left right and centre every sunday morning and I don't get **** all from it cause if anyone goes anywhere near the ground in Sunday League everyone calls you a diving ******* and the referee won't give anything. You literally have to be assaulted before the ref has glance - it never used to be like this til the world went diving mad, nobody ever dived, and if it was a foul it was given.

[Ron_Mexico]

i agree with mike g

im sick of players going over at the slightest touch, its so obvious as well

ive noticed it's down to the refs in each game to get control of it, sadly in england the refs are ****. if they set the tone early that they are not going to call the "ronaldo fouls" the players stop diving because they lose possession and look like idiots.

and while im ranting the double standards in the game were clear to see last night. rooney should have gone twice, i saw the ref reaching for his pocket the second time, but it seemed as if someone whispered in his earpiece to let rooney off. it was a disgrace

[Neil Young]

I said in the match thread last night that it was a total dive. Woodgate didn't even make contact with Ronaldo - Ronaldo saw the challenge coming and made contact with him by flinging his leg out. Cheating ****.

It sickens me that pundits like Redknapp and Wilkins are agreeing that this is a pen. Old skool (well, Wilkins anyway) players and still they think this is a pen?

It was the same with Kalou's cheating to win a pen out of Micah Richards the other week. They all said that was a pen too. Laughable.

And Gerrard's against Sheffield Utd.

Anyway, Ronaldo gave it away in his radio interview. "He touched me and I went over." Not 'he hacked me and I lost my balance' or 'he tripped me and I fell over'.

It's objectionable behaviour but he's not the only one to do it.

[simey85]

ronaldo is going to keep doing it, as his manager clearly turns a blind eye to it. it would be interesting to see what alex would say if someone was to win a couple of soft penalties against them!