Golden chance missed for the future of football

[RFUS]

I agree with your sentiments, if not your half-grandiose, half-mental delivery of said sentiments.

Diving really is a big issue and yesterday Suarez dived a few times and the ref knew it was a dive, but didn't have the balls to do anything. The real issue for me though isn't Clattenburg or whichever middle-aged muppet is 'refereeing' a contest, it's the FA. They could quite easily implement retroactive bans for this kind of thing, which would stop almost all of it instantly. But they sit on their hands, as always.

 

[toffeejack]

Replays show contact which was mentioned on MOTD last night. Not enough for a foul but enough to make the ref think twice about a second yellow.

"For the future of football?" Up there with, will somebody think if the children!!

utter joke. i didn't see the incident and we've all predicted suarez would avoid a red through diving sometime.

i hate this contact excuse, like roberto said on goals on sunday, if it's something that makes you have to dive, iit's a dive regardless of contact. the refs in this league have no spine whatsoever, week in week out they are being conned like absolute mugs and yet they just take it. they're so spineless it's unreal, i mean who on hear would happily see people cheat them in the workplace and make them look like a fool, every single day?

no-one, but that's their choice. it shouldn't be left to their opinion. FIFA should bring in video retrospective action, they are so dumb it's unreal. the sport is becoming a bit of a joke atm, if it weren't for everton, i'd be shying away from it hence why i only really watch prem games now and only the interesting ones.

loads of people take the blame, so many have the power to do something but nobody has the backbone to actually do it. it's no coincidence that the two biggest con artists in english football atm are the ones occupying the top two positions. shows you all you need to know about the sport atm.

 

[peteblue]

So football is doomed then......

*goes back to watching Rugby Union......

 

[mrb85]

Not sure where you get that from.

Well, given that the RS were being given the runaround in the second half even with 11 men on the field and City were slicing through the RS defence at will, I'd have thought it a pretty safe bet that with only 10 on the pitch they'd have had trouble even salvaging a point. And then with Suarez suspended, the chances of further points being dropped would have been increased significantly. So, basically the outcome of the whole championship would likely have been impacted had Clattenburg had the balls and the inclination to have sent the cheating get off.

 

[ijjysmith]

Well, given that the RS were being given the runaround in the second half even with 11 men on the field and City were slicing through the RS defence at will, I'd have thought it a pretty safe bet that with only 10 on the pitch they'd have had trouble even salvaging a point. And then with Suarez suspended, the chances of further points being dropped would have been increased significantly. So, basically the outcome of the whole championship would likely have been impacted had Clattenburg had the balls and the inclination to have sent the cheating get off.

I agree with the suspension thing in later games, but there's nothing to say they wouldn't have won or drawn if he'd been sent off, as he should have been.

In fact they'd still have probably skanked the win, because they always do, no matter what.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I agree totally with Rufus. There'll always be an excuse (sometimes reasonable, sometimes not) for refs as they only see it once and in real time. There is however, no excuse for the footballing authorities for not taking action.