Baleforce
Terry Naylor
Yep.
I know we are supposed to dislike them, but Arteta just does all the stuff I'd do if I was a PL manager. I have to respect that.
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The Goon Thread
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Yep.
I know we are supposed to dislike them, but Arteta just does all the stuff I'd do if I was a PL manager. I have to respect that.
Robbo
Tom Huddlestone
Indeed. I'm not particularily fond of the datk arts in any form, but the signal that the FA/PL/PGMOL sends out is one of total acceptance. Hence we should do it too. If anything, it might promt them to take action when not only their darlings do it.
stratnumberone
Stephen Clemence
Just the fact that pundits, media, EVERYONE refers to it as ‘the dark arts’ shows an acceptance and admiration. I don’t call it that as I don’t like the euphemism. I call it what it is: cheating.
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
If it was cheating the officials would pull them up on it.
stratnumberone
Stephen Clemence
The officials get precious little correct. What makes you think they would pull up cheating correctly?
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
Football is a sandbox, we have seen over and over again that precedent shapes the rules in the sport.
If an act is repeatedly allowed, it is therefore approved, it’s a smart manager/team that takes advantage of this.
It’s being done in the open, flagrantly, live on TV with multi angle slow motion replay, that’s not cheating.
Cheating is what City and Chelsea do with money, and what the Dippers and Leicester did with performance enhancing drugs.
stratnumberone
Stephen Clemence
Feigning injury, diving and time wasting are cheating. Granted: a different type of cheating to what you outlined, but still cheating. Being repeatedly allowed doesn’t make it ok. It means that those in charge of the game aren’t, in fact, in charge of the game, or are useless at their jobs, or more likely both.
Baleforce
Terry Naylor
But what you say about those in charge of the game, that is part of the game too, the game is a living organism, it changes constantly.
If laws are not applied they are not really laws, just guidelines.