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Originally Posted by Faile
That's not true. There was 1% in posession between the two teams and when you consider the fact that England were playing with ten men for the last hour and looked a lot more like they were going to win it through open play, then it was definitely England that played the better game. Cheating isn't a technicality, it's against the rules and the spirit of the game and a lot of teams that aren't able to play the physical side of the game opt for it. Diving needs to be banished from the game by making it a straight yellow card offence.
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I am not the only one with the opinion that Portugal played a better game, but I guess that argument could go on forever.
You are right about how diving should be an offense punishable by atleast yellow card, especially if it is in the opponents penatly area. If I am not mistaken, somebody earlier in the cup was sent off for this reason, but I forget which game it was and who did it. The problem is it is very hard to tell when a player is faking or not in a lot of cases. I have seen guys go down countless times when I immediately thought they were faking it only to realize they were probably in actual pain and when seeing a replay of the action it was like "oh wow no wonder the guys down." The referee does not get to see these replays from several angles like we do. Players often do go down because of the physical nature of the sport. Sometimes they are not hurt and are sportsmanlike enough to get right back up and keep playing. Others will stay down there for a while clutching pretend injuries until they are sure a foul was called. But it still happens that players go down and do not get back up because they are actually hurt and it would be very difficult for the referee to spend half his time deciding whether or not this is true. A good referee solves that by making a decision on the foul based on what he saw happened. As far as carding a player for feigning injury, he can really only do it when it is so incredibly obvious because he saw the player take a dive when nobody touched him.
I imagine it wouldnt be easy being a referee.
Another argument that could be brought up was the penalty kick that was given to Italy in the last seconds of the game against Australia. Based on what I saw of the replays of a few angles, it was still hard for me to make up my mind. We really have no idea what it looked like to the ref. My dad is of the opinion that you should NEVER give a team a penalty kick in the closing minutes of a game no matter what. All I will say is we don't know how that foul looked to the ref. I wish he hadn't called it because I was for Australia, but there's not much anybody can do now.
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