Yeah, with intonation it would have sounded more like "Riiiight"
Btw I wholeheartedly disagree. Passion is at the core of sport. Why even bother otherwise. It's all big theatre and wanting players to act like milk toast drones is not what I want from Sports.
I want to see emotion, good and bad. It makes these matches into events. Otherwise just run a simulation and compare numbers at the end.
HOWEVER penalties for violent behaviour, unsporting conduct and better protection for refs is a must. But to act like some heated players getting into the refs face is too much is ridiculous.
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These Suarez Gifs still make my blood boil. What a fucking cunt.
Oh yeah, sorry, it's always hard for these things to come across on the internet.
I agree, Suarez makes my blood boil. So does some of the bullshit Ramos tried to pull off. I hate cheating in football but also can't stand bad refereeing, especially when we should just have VAR to help stop shit like this.
You make it sound like a physical reaction is equal to making a poor refereeing decision, which they are absolutely not. These two incidents need to be looked at in isolation. The decision was poor, and the ref needs to be reevaluated by the governing body.
But touching an official deserves a lengthy ban because of the message it sends. I have two family members who referee at grass roots, and they frequently get threatened with physical abuse because of petulant behaviour like this.
These are grown-ass adults, they should be behaving as such.
Well, I mean, ignoring that it was a very basic touch, yeah, you should never lay your hands on someone for something that is non-violent however the equality of it is somewhat problematic.
The referees incompetence already gave Barcelona a goal in a game they otherwise wouldn't have scored in. Now, they take Madrid down to 10 men and take off their best player. That's not a minor decision, its not a quibble that one may have at the end of the game. That poor refereeing decision has - at that point - potentially lost a game to their rivals in a derby match which may well decide the league in 9 months. Its not an insignificant decision so whilst I don't agree with what Ronaldo did, I completely understand it. I see the deicison as a bad one but I don't see it as innately 'childish', just stupid.
Just for comparison. This week in the EPL, Fabregas got a yellow for mockingly clapping a referee after a decision. He got a yellow, that's fair enough. Just like Ronaldo's current ban.
I used to live with a guy who was a referee. He once gave a kid a red for saying 'fuck off' or 'fuck you', something like that. He got told by the match officials that all the Dads of that team were waiting for him outside and looking to 'have a word' (English for 'beat him up'). He had to get a police escort out. It was an under-16s league game.
And just soccer in general. The whole pussy ass fake falling needs to stop. Unless you are a fan of Lebron James who learned to be a pussy from the best of European sports.
The thing is that soccer isn't a contract sport. Its annoying as fuck but usually when a player does the whole 'theatrical falling down' shit, the other player has actually broken a rule and its the only way to draw the referees attention to it.
Diving is bullshit but this isn't all under the same umbrella although I can see why it would seem that way to an amateur eye or someone not acquainted with the rules.
