Plymouth Gooner wrote:Leody wrote:Plymouth Gooner wrote:If rio pulls him back by the shoulder theo should be busting a gut to stay on his feet and score. If rio pulling him causes him to fall then fine, but if he goes down looking for the foul the ref should wave play on and book theo when the ball next goes out of play imo. That is how i want things to be!
We all do. But letting the ref determine that during the course of play at full match speed is insanity. Because you just KNOW they'll start making horribly wrong calls because they think the player could have fought through the challenge.
A foul is a foul. Regardless of how the player reacts to it. Leave it at that.
And Torres was fouled.
A foul isn't a foul if the striker saw the defender and purposely waited for the challenge. There was a time that was seen as cheating, now it is seen as a skill. I don't know how we got to where we are now or how to eradicate it but it is wrong.
Contact should not equal a foul, otherwise football becomes a non contact sport and that ruins it for me!
Perhaps if the defender is afraid of a player looking for a contact he should be more careful in his challenge and make sure he wins the ball... just a thought.
Look, we all hate the diving, simulation, going down before contact, dragging a foot and reaching for contact bull shit. But you cannot allow the refs even more interpretation in what is and isn't a foul. Your intentions are good, but enforcement misguided. You think the moaning about Manc favoritism is bad now... Jesus I fear to think the calls they would get in their favor if refs could judge the effort a player made to avoid or fight through a challenge. You'd never see another penalty at Old Trafford.