| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership 17:42 - Sep 29 with 1456 views | SE1blue |
Is the amount of feigning injury and going to ground so easily, especially with way more cameras on the case.
Definitely didn’t expect it from the top clubs but seems rife. |  |
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| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 17:47 - Sep 29 with 1394 views | Cafe_Newman |
It's rubbish.
It goes unpunished so they all do it.
There's a simple solution. You get a count of 10 and if you're still down, you go off for 5 minutes to recover. |  | | |
| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 17:51 - Sep 29 with 1345 views | Help |
I think they were told if number 5 comes anywhere near you hit the grass. Rather disappointing to be honest that this goes on so much unpunished.
Does appear to be that new and lower teams get punished more than the top, bigger teams in respect of cards. |  |
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| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 17:51 - Sep 29 with 1344 views | GeoffSentence |
Me too, I thought we'd left that behind in League One. |  |
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| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 18:22 - Sep 29 with 1210 views | FrimleyBlue |
Problem is having 100 cameras in the ground makes no difference. No yellows come from it. No retrospective bans come from diving either. |  |
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| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 18:28 - Sep 29 with 1163 views | SE1blue |
| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 18:22 - Sep 29 by FrimleyBlue |
Problem is having 100 cameras in the ground makes no difference. No yellows come from it. No retrospective bans come from diving either. |
True.
Pau’s head injury claim in the first half was just embarrassing. I couldn’t do it for fear of my teammates ripping me about it later. | |
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| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 19:00 - Sep 29 with 1040 views | stonojnr |
| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 18:28 - Sep 29 by SE1blue |
True.
Pau’s head injury claim in the first half was just embarrassing. I couldn’t do it for fear of my teammates ripping me about it later. |
But its about taking every advantage you can, it's arguably the sign of well managed professional team.
In league 1 they're doing it because they're just wasting time. Here they're doing it to gain an advantage, either to stop play to allow regrouping, break up the pressure, disrupt the opposition, it's not just about time wasting.
The officials should be more on the case for it, and it would stop instantly if the ref didn't give a free kick after you've spent 10 seconds rolling around the pitch. But these prem refs are either gullible or reliant so much on VAR to dig then out of a hole they'll just give cheap free kicks for it. |  | | |
| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 19:02 - Sep 29 with 1027 views | Markp68 |
Before the season I said to my son the 2 things I was least looking forward to in the Premier League was VAR and the constant falling over and feigning injury at the most innocuous challenges. I’ve continued to watch premier league football during our fallow years and Villa’s conduct in that area today is par for the course especially for the clubs at the top of the league. I genuinely hope we don’t follow the same path as it isn’t how I want to see the game played | | | |
| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 19:20 - Sep 29 with 941 views | _clive_baker_ |
I think we’ve played it as well at times. There was a foul on Phillips in the first half that I had a great view of and looked so soft. We were laughing that it was given. Seems like any time a player hits the floor the refs just give it as it’s the path of least resistance. Nobody’s going to debate it, but if you don’t give it and a goal comes from it it’ll be poured over. |  | | |
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| One thing I didn’t expect in the Premiership on 19:21 - Sep 29 with 932 views | FromReuserWithLove |
It's pathetic and irritating isn't it. Problem is that it's never called out, with "there was contact" trotted out to justify. |  | | |
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