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It’s Go Time!!
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Curious to see if Man U can make it interesting today.
Maybe he was crying because he knew what it meant, not because of the pain?
Madrid gave no timescale for his recovery in a statement released on Wednesday but reports have suggested he will miss the next two months.
"After the tests made today to our player Vinicius by the medical team of Real Madrid, he has been diagnosed with a torn ligament in his right calf. Further evaluation pending," the statement said.
I guess we will never know for sure.
Its just an interesting dynamic going from watching hockey players play with ears held on by a couple stitches to soccer players act like death is upon them when they get tripped by another player.
Agreed but that is usually about trying to get a call and/or getting an opponent a card. And let’s not pretend there isn’t a level of diving/embellishment in hockey also, though yes not anywhere close to as in soccer.
I guess I just think there is a difference between embellishing to get a call and showing toughness by playing through pain or an injury. Plenty of soccer players play through pain and injuries and it is fairly common to see a guy playing with his head wrapped like a mummy because of a bad clash of heads with blood everywhere. Is it to the extent of hockey, an actual contact sport? Of course not.
Of course it's to draw calls, otherwise if they were really bothered by the boo-boo they'd just limp around and cry for the rest of the match.
It's obnoxious and it can affect the outcome of games that are almost always close in score. That's why they penalize it. Imagine if hockey players got ejected and missed a game on their 2nd minor penalty, and you couldn't replace him on the ice. Imagine if penalties in the crease always resulted in penalty shots. You'd have a LOT more diving in hockey. A lot.
The way to stop it is to call more penalties on the divers. If you get a few wrong, and the guy isn't dead, that's fine. It still should have the desired effect.
Where’s Vinny Jones when you need him...?