[Football] Cheating - pretending to be injured to disrupt the opposition

[Sea Cider]

Any ideas how this can be fixed?

Maybe they could just introduce the same rule as rugby where an injured player gets treated whilst the game continues? Or straight off on a stretcher?

Might have its downsides but sure as hell would stop cheats like Robinson getting away with altering the course of the match.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Maybe our boys could stop diving and going down so easily too?

March, Estupinan, Veltman, Mitoma, Caicedo and Mac Allister all guilty of it today.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Stop the clock when play stops.

 

[Stat Brother]

Scoring in the first half might help.

 

[Sea Cider]

Stop the clock when play stops.

But this doesn't stop killing the momentum, crowd noise etc. Robinson and their no 6 both did it today at crucial moments when we were building up steam.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Maybe our boys could stop diving and going down so easily too?

March, Estupinan, Mitoma, Caicedo and Mac Allister all guilty of it today.

The difference is the ref didn’t stop play for them.

 

[Algernon]

I'd just like every player to stop the fakery but it ain't going to happen.
Nothing can be done about it.

 

[Sea Cider]

Robinson was literally screaming in 'pain' then 5 minutes later jogging on the touchline waiting to come back on.

Embarrassing

 

[Sea Cider]

Maybe our boys could stop diving and going down so easily too?

March, Estupinan, Mitoma, Caicedo and Mac Allister all guilty of it today.

I don't care which team does it. And I'm not talking about diving, I'm talking about feigning injury to get the trainers on.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Classic anti football nonsense. Fulham were an embarrassment today.

 

[LamieRobertson]

The difference is the ref didn’t stop play for them.

Exactly …plus I don’t recall Match going down and feigning injury …nearly had his legs decapitated though… or the trainer on for any …

 

[Littlemo]

It’s the players who need to stop it though. No point in blaming the refs, they can’t tell when it’s genuine or not and especially with the head injuries, they can’t insist they go off because you can’t move them,

Maybe if a player has a head knock then they have to go off for 5 mins to be assessed for concussion (once standing again). Forcing teams to play for 5 mins or so with 10 men might help a bit.

 

[Easy 10]

If a player goes down holding his face or head, then he goes off for a MANDATORY 5 minutes to be assessed. Or they can sub him straight away.

This goonery getting the game constantly stopped for the face-clutchers has to stop.

 

[Weststander]

May I thank the Fulham medical staff for saving at least three lives today.

From afar in the NS, they appeared to work frantically to get breathing going again, whilst dealing with life changing head injuries.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Classic anti football nonsense. Fulham were an embarrassment today.

As if they are gonna care, shithoused the points just like Villa did.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Exactly …plus I don’t recall Match going down and feigning injury …nearly had his legs decapitated though… or the trainer on for any …

He showed the linesman his injury & questioned why he didn’t alert the ref.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I'd just like every player to stop the fakery but it ain't going to happen.
Nothing can be done about it.

It can if the ref doesn’t allow them back on the pitch for 5 mins.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I’ve long been against the stop the clock stuff but it is endemic in the game now. Something has to change.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Any ideas how this can be fixed?

Maybe they could just introduce the same rule as rugby where an injured player gets treated whilst the game continues? Or straight off on a stretcher?

Might have its downsides but sure as hell would stop cheats like Robinson getting away with altering the course of the match.

Robinson was a disgrace. Goes down face contorted 'in pain' doing the whole pounding the ground with his fist thing intended to convey extreme agony. You'd swear his ankle was shattered in three places. About ninety seconds later he's galloping full pelt down the wing. And they must be the unluckiest team in the league for 'head injuries' eh?

 

[GT49er]

Stop the clock when play stops.

Yes, big clock in the stadium - stopped whenever the ball not in play, 30 minutes each way (because that's roughly what we get in play anyway).

Vis a vis claiming a head injury, automatically off the pitch for 5 minutes, no substitute allowed until the five minutes are up.