(07-03-2021, 10:36 PM)PaulP date Wrote:Italian soccer is the true locus of Italian culture, the place where Opera and Religion come together. Miracles and theatrics, all on show for the paying public. I love it.Who cares what region they are from, that staging is abhorrent, and completely disrespectful to sportspeople who are genuinely injured in the pursuit of success. As are the fake injury timeouts in tennis.
There should be fines for this behaviour an order of magnitude higher than any other offense, $100K or $1M, it's making a mockery of the concept of good sport! In fact it's not sport at all, it more likely to fit the bill of grifting!
For me, this sort of staging for frees is far far worse than the Hand of God!
We need the bloke below handling the MRP for these cases!
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They'll shoot a referee for making an honest mistake in Sth America, but they'll laud a player who cheats the system and it is cheating there is no debate about that!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"