Burnley use this one, feigning head injuries to ensure the game is stopped when the opposition are breaking on themYesterday the rags got the 2nd goal out of doing this.
Penedez goes down and Spurs break out of their area with Luke Shaw out of position and behind the ball.
Shaw clearly shouts / gestures to put the ball out and the rags all stop, pointing at their player lying there with no head injury.
Spurs kick the ball out.
Play resumes and the rags (now in their correct positions) "sportingly" play the ball back to Spurs and then apply the pressure. Spurs never really got a grip on the ball and lose it. Bam. 2-1 to the rags.
A promising breakaway for Spurs to a goal to the rags inside a minute....
Teams need to play to the whistle and refs need to be strong when the complaining comes in when this tactic backfires on the likes of the rags
How noddy can say son was playacting when he has a full squad of them falling over is laughable. Fernandes is a cheat, how nobody has took one for the team and absolutely twatted him baffles me, you'd want to nail him everytime.
But they all do it, get clipped and scream, that isn't in them already, it is trained into them.
its been a much slower process than united fans would have liked, but gradually they have become a pretty useful side. Theres been a lot of wasted money along the way, but the signings of fernandes, AWB and Maguire combined with the development of rashford, greenwood and mctominay have turned them into a pretty solid, energetic and clinical side. With the help of the refs along the way of course.
He supplied the words for GPC's autobiography.Another united client journalist
They did it twice at corners against us to stop City counter attacks. It's a despicable tactic because it puts players with genuine head injuries at risk. The referees need to get a grip on the cheating epidemic in English football. It's an insult to fans.Burnley use this one, feigning head injuries to ensure the game is stopped when the opposition are breaking on them
Yep a despicable cynical exploitation of serious head injury protocolsThey did it twice at corners against us to stop City counter attacks. It's a despicable tactic because it puts players with genuine head injuries at risk. The referees need to get a grip on the cheating epidemic in English football. It's an insult to fans.
I think they know that everything looks like a foul when viewed on VAR and is likely to get punished.They did it twice at corners against us to stop City counter attacks. It's a despicable tactic because it puts players with genuine head injuries at risk. The referees need to get a grip on the cheating epidemic in English football. It's an insult to fans.
What they needed was a reality check and I think OGS has done that. The squad he took over was full of dross. They still have a lot of dross but they now play like they have to earn a result and the effort and back to basics approach is paying off. The problem is how long will they put up with being a high energy (less quality) outfit?Sadly and incredibly considering the appoitment of OGS, I agree with the assessment.
Pretty sure that the Govan pisshead is still pulling the strings however, as his past managerial attempts were pretty shite as Cardiff fans will confirm.
The Nowegian fuckwit will do as he's told , including hypocrisy .