Players Diving

[HermanPant]

I agree it's getting worse every season and something needs to be done. Get Kenneth Branagh on VAR

 

[MCFC1993]

They did it 3 times yesterday:
- Mateta staying down when he wasn't hurt, trying to get VAR to give a pen even though he jumped into Ortega.
- Hughes faking a head injury, Dias stopped barely made contact. Disappointing because Hughes played well but let himself down there.
- Chalobah getting Lewis sent off when he fouled Lewis, he's a cheat and should be retrospectively banned.

If VAR can't get involved then retrospective bans for diving should be brought in.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

They did it 3 times yesterday:
- Mateta staying down when he wasn't hurt, trying to get VAR to give a pen even though he jumped into Ortega.
- Hughes faking a head injury, Dias stopped barely made contact. Disappointing because Hughes played well but let himself down there.
- Chalobah getting Lewis sent off when he fouled Lewis, he's a cheat and should be retrospectively banned.

If VAR can't get involved then retrospective bans for diving should be brought in.

I've seen more clear dives this season. Players who go past an opponent, take a couple of steps and then collapse to the ground. Refs award the free and the crowd at home watching the replay are seething at the stark staring bloody incompetence at applying the LotG. And nothing, of course, is done to rectify the problem and ban the diving bastards. Heaven forfend, it makes you think they have a preferred result with which to end the game.

 

[Leeky]

A so called head injury is the worse for me, players know the referee will stop the game no matter how much contact. When City was attacking Hughes went down after contact to his body and went down holding his face, he knew the referee would stop play and break play up and stop the momentum.

 

[Franny 1234]

Refs do there job properly and this issue goes away. We didn't see diving much ( except Franny RIP )before the Premier League started

 

[MellowJoe]

The worst culprit last night was Ortega

 

[IOWBlue]

Diving and feigning injury. Klinsmann made it popular. Ginola refined it, The rat Portuguese rag made it his. ( cant stand it when ours do it either )

 

[kashmir]

All So called head injuries should mean the player leaves the pitch for 5 minutes to be assessed by a qualified doctor
Perhaps apply it to all injuries where the player acts like he’s been shot and after stopping the match then run away like Linford Christie after 10 seconds of treatment

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Mateta and Hughes were embarrassing. Take them off the pitch for a 10 minute concussion assessment next time they want to pretend like they have been hit in the head with a bat.

 

[give it to gordon]

I don't know what a dive is. I thought thr penalty against us last week wasn't a penalty. The dipper had plenty of time to clear the keeper, instead he left his foot to make contact. He chose to make contact with the keeper because he had lost control of the ball.
To me that's a dive but it seems I'm mostly on my own with that view.

Why doesnt the pfa tell its members to stop trying to get fellow members in trouble