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Originally Posted by sherer
surely exaggerating contact to fall over is cheating too. What really annoys me these days is when you watch a replay and you have an ex-pro who knows full well the contact they are showing isn't enouhg to make anyone fall over says this must be a foul as there was contact.
If we brought in some sports scientists and looked at this professionally you would find out most of the contact isn't even enough to knock anyone over.
Why is football the only sport in the world where when you are playing and have the adrenalin flowing you aren't able to play through an injury ?
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Exaggerating contact and falling over is a tricky one. Where video replays cannot really help because how do you decide if enough contact was made? Also some contact may be enough to unfairly slow the attacker and in which case they may 'dive' is order to make it clear to the ref that his progress, and hence a goal scoring opportunity, was unfairly restricted by the defender.