good lol

Alas, i dont see you adressing American football the same way. As for the insult, i would return to you, but im pretty sure its against forum rules.

I never get tired of seeing this goal, especially as Wilshere starts the whole move off in his own half.

OT: Yes, diving is a scourge in modern football (soccer). I really don't see why players can't be punished retroactively. Any incident of diving or play acting should be seen as bringing the game into disrepute and an immediate 3 match ban, 5 if your team actually benefit from it. As soon as you do that, players are going to be diving a whole lot less.

My problem with football is that it just seems a lot less physical these days than in the past. Players are wrapped in cotton wool. I still don't understand why they stopped the shoulder tackle.

And retroactively drop the offending team 3 points regardless of the result. That should stop these actors.

Because it's a turned-based sport. Obviously you only seem to enjoy sports which have prolonged continuity, but not all sports are designed like that.

This is all I have to contribute to the thread.

Soccer is the worst by far for diving, but it's spreading to other sports.

Hockey is my game, but even we're seeing more and more diving with the influx of French Candians and Europeans joining the league.

I know it's hard for a ref sometimes to tell a dive from an actual dirty play...but I really wish just like dirty hits can get reviewed and lead to fines or suspensions...I really wish frequent diving was punishable. Start with fines (doesn't have to be a large amount, but just the embarassment of being labelled a diver also hurts), but if it continues I'd love for divers to sit out a couple games.

In North America it's called soccer...and this is a thread made by a North American so that's what he called it, get over it. I don't whine when you a European calls the trunk of a car the "boot" or the hood a "bonnet" because I know that's what they say over there. Or when you guys spell "tire" as "tyre"

        Basketball for the win, bitches.