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The Goon Thread

Baleforce said:
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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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 said:
The officials get precious little correct. What makes you think they would pull up cheating correctly?
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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.
 
Baleforce said:
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.
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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.
 
stratnumberone said:
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.
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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.
 
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