Referees need to get these things right the first time. Examples like this are the reason why players attempt diving. There is nothing on, the player is moving away from the goal yet still inside the area. “I might try and fool the referee.” SPL champions Celtic were 2-1 up against Ross County late on in today’s League clash, and …
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Simulation. Until a certain Dubliner intervened, it was the sporting story of the week. Jamie Vardy’s swan-like leap on Sunday against West Ham has inexplicably split the footballing world. He was correctly cautioned for simulation as Jamie Carragher expertly illustrated on Sky’s Monday Night Football. However, in Germany last night, Chilean international and supposed “hardman” Arturo Vidal bested Vardy for …
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In the words of the great Nigel Owens: “This is not soccer.” Diving, simulating injury, and conning the referee has its place. That place is not on a rugby field. This video from a Samoan game shows two players trading shadow blows, before the bigger of the pair dropped to the ground in front of the referee, hoping to draw a …
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