Comments on: Is there place for Morality in football?

By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:05:16 +0000

First Capi and Arzu (espicially him) have to understand the song by The Police “Dont stand so close to me”. When in ballcontrol keep distance. Second I think it was a free kick – Capi was pushed into Arzu. But Betis didnt get the free kick so there were no other thing to do for Depor than play along.
Talking about morality Sergio Garcia was no good example either: first he tries to twist the ball into the topcorner in an attempt to score a beatiful goal, instead he should have just clashed it into the back of the net. Then he starring in a diving contest – not my favourite player that evening!!
But overall I think that Betis had some nice posessionplay going on and I’m looking forward to se them ad a hole lot of points to their score.

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:01:31 +0000

I think the alternative route to Steven Downs’ suggestion is to give a lot more cards for diving. That would help quite a bit.

By: Steven Downs

Steven Downs — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:38:08 +0000

I remember during Euro 2008 when a player would go down and stay down knowing the other team was getting a breakaway. The other team being sportsmanlike would kick the ball out of bounds. Then the “hurt” player would get up as if nothing happened. It would ruin the flow of the game and look completely farcicle.

I think in these situations play should continue until you have erased to play acting(cheating) from the game. I think this is the only solution. Now I am not saying the Betis player did play act, because it looked like he didnt, but if the Coruna players could be completely sure of him not diving than I am sure they would have kicked the ball out of play. But you cant in this day of diving and cheating in soccer.

just my two cents