mZuzek said:
I wouldn't even call that cheating. Cheating is breaking the rules to your team's benefit, meaning your doing something the rules have no answer for - such as diving to try to win free kicks or penalties. There are rules for a player handballing to avoid a goal, thus it's not cheating. No rules were broken. Also, hard disagree on the "penalty goals" thing. A goal is when a ball crosses the line. It doesn't matter if it was going in or not, it didn't go in, it's not a goal. The day they start giving goals without the ball going in is the day football dies. |
The rules do have an answer for your diving example - they the yellow and red cards. Those are given when players break the rules, ie when they cheat. That Suarez got a red card is literal proof that he cheated.
As for your second point, well that’s how people felt about things like goal-line technology and VAR (I realise the latter isn’t the most popular atm). The penalty goals concept should only be in clear instances where a goal would have categorically been scored if the opposing player didn’t cheat (ie the Suarez incident), not with a basic foul in the penalty area. You are removing the incentive to cheat. That is hardly going to ‘kill football’. Moot point anyway as it’s not exactly an idea that has popular traction. Kinda why I’m left hoping Ghana can return the favour in the game tomorrow.
