It's getting ridiculous now.
Last night Drogba (built like the incredible hulk), was going down under the most weakest of challenges. What a disgrace.
The best one - Deco. Rolling on the floor after a challenge. John Terry then boots the ball at him and, Deco, jumps up to confront him, cured by some sort of miracle.
It's ruining the game. If I want to watch people falling over under the slightest knock, I'll watch American wrestling.
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after five minutes i thought this had the potential to be one of the best ever club matches.
after 25 minutes i had lost complete interest.
why can't players just play football ? i really don't understand the play-acting, half the time they are stopping themselves from an advantageous situation by going to the floor, normally when they have already beat the man.
There was a good example of that last night. Drogba, I think, in their pen area chasing onto something he could easily of made with a bit of effort. Instead, he goes down and claims a penalty... that isn't sport. Stick him in a pair of tights and give him a panto appearance...
Lol medders, i saw that incident, and it was my mrs who put that spin on it too, it did make me laugh,he was dying and writhing round in utter pain, then a ball gets kicked into him and suddenly he is up fighting!
I fecking hate barca, infact i hate all spains teams. I know chelsea aint exactly a proper english club anymore, but i still found it funny when they scored to make it 2-2!
It's a bit naive of me, I know, but I expected better from Barcelona. Nothing Chelsea does ever surprises me nowadays.
I absolutely loved this game. Like the Portugal Vs Holland game in the world cup where people complained the game was ruined. Nonsense! If both teams want to needle, dive, whinge, moan,stamp and kick each other while at the same time playing some sublime football than thats fine by me, I thought it was a wonderful game to watch... would you have prefered to watch the first game again which was a total snoozefest?
The only time i have an issue with these antics is when one side doesn't want to play football and one wants to cheat. If two teams want to cheat then great it makes entertaining football.
no trickery, no amazing goals, no attack on the break, thats what i wanna see, not the ref every 10 seconds blowing his whistle and getting out another card, and definately not missing half the action as the cameras were showing the 15th replay of an incident, and missing more action
last night those cameras were terrible. they missed loadsa stuff!
I spose though if we were ever playing at this level we would probably do EVERYTHING in our power to help our selves, or would we do the polite Charlton thing?????
But the're scared to make someone the scape goat.....
We fell foul at the start of the season with a player taking a corner, the someone else shouts 'i'll take it'. what you don't realise as the first player walks away is he has rolled it an inch with his studs. The other player runs over then dribbles the ball into the box. Its in the rules, but its awful play. Its obviously going round the league as its been tried against us 3 times now, and we're wise to it. Would never let my players do that though.
We've also had this season players holding the ball in the corner flag in the last minutes of games when they are 1 goal up. Its not how the game should be played at any level, let alone ours. A couple of mine went to do it the other week when we were winning, and i screamed at them not to.
AFKA is just upset that he didn't think of it first ;-)