Are the number to guess how many dives each team will do?
Are the number to guess how many dives each team will do?
Diving is really only prevalent in the World Cup due to the high stakes, and the pressure put on refs that are more than willing to buckle, especially if it involves the host country. It's the same reason there's diving and embellishment in hockey, even in the playoffs. If a player can get away with it, it can totally change a game, even moreso in soccer if a penalty is awarded or a guy gets a red card.
Only a few countries dive with regularity, the rest is just isolated with specific players. And mostly people see soccer players in agony as ridiculous when it's just a way to attract the attention of the ref to a foul the same way snapping your head back when you legitimately get high sticked is.
If you keep asking yourself "How do people watch this crap?" then maybe watch this as a starter:
Hockey is really no different. It's equally perplexing, silly, crazy, and unappealing to a large swathe of people. Let go your predilections, have a few beers, and enjoy the world cup.
Ummm...m-Kay?!?! Just trying to be silly here, but...
Then, because the call was so blatantly bad, I would tell all my players to line up in the penalty box area in front of the goal. They would be booked for dissension to the point where it would be an 11-on-1 game, as only the goalie would be left.
It's kinda on the level of coming into our forum to make jokes like "they play hockey in the desert??!?"
I think games are abandoned if teams have less than a certain number of players. Not sure exactly how many.. Six?
Boy do I feel silly now for guessing Spain would win today. I was way off!
I'm sure you're not alone. I bet everyone espected Spain to win.
If you look back to post #32, you'll find someone else who was picking HollandI'm sure you're not alone. I bet everyone espected Spain to win.
If you look back to post #32, you'll find someone else who was picking Holland
Certainly didn't expect 5-1, but Father Time waits for no man, and Xavi & Iniesta have played a LOT of soccer since August 2007 ...
Here's what I got...
IFAB recommends that "that a match should not continue if there are fewer than seven players in either team." Any decision regarding points awarded for abandoned games is left to the individual football associations.
So technically, it is only a recommendation and not a true rule? The same way that it would be recommended not to commit perceived dissent towards an official?
I joke, but there goes my brilliant plan of taking this crap out of the game and/or winning a ton of money for you and your team by doing so...
It is a FIFA rule that 7 is the minimum number of players a team can have on the field. The game is over when it goes under 7. How they decide the outcome is beyond me but the game ends from the ref.