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I’ve often wondered about how a footballers mind works and the first half of the FA Cup Final brought those points up again:
1. Why, when a player is flagged offside, does he take the shot anyway, miss, THEN complain about being offside?
2. Why, when a player goes down in the box and no penalty is given, does he still put his hand in the air and throw a hissy fit? Has that ever worked?
Any others that just defy logic?
Was a cr/appy boring game. Nicely worked goal though.
Have to agree, though it did liven up a bit in the second half though. Interesting that Jose was harping on about players diving and then good old Drogba put in the effort that you come to expect. I don’t recall hearing him complain either.
Class goal, but Giggs’ wasn’t a goal. Yes, it went over the line but given that his momentum was carrying Cech and ther ball over it couldn’t really be given.
@johnboy25 wrote:
I’ve often wondered about how a footballers mind works
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1. Why, when a player is flagged offside, does he take the shot anyway, miss, THEN complain about being offside?
Showmanship = £. He complains because he wants to “show” the fans he “cares”, this will encourage a good contract.
2. Why, when a player goes down in the box and no penalty is given, does he still put his hand in the air and throw a hissy fit? Has that ever worked?
The latter reason i just gave. I think it has worked, cant remember the situation though. But its one in zillion X zillion X zillion and X that all again by another 100 million zillion, and then your only half a percent there, at best.
Any others that just defy logic?
Logic dictates what humans do.
If they think that throwing their toys out of the pram shows that they care then they’re sadly mistaken. I’d rather have 11 honest, hard working players who pick themselves up and get on with the game than
any damned day of the week!
But how many fans are like you and me John?
Most fans think the player cares if he throws a fit, because he’s doing it for the “benefit” of their club – “for them”.
Complaining also puts pressure on the officials, because most fans will feel the player has been hard done to, so the fans will have a go at the ref. Pshycology.
Players, managers etc, USE the fans, the media etc to get what they want, and fans pay them HUGE sums of our hard earnt. Free admittence?
30 years ago, a player had to work hard playing football, and only football, if they wanted to earn a great living.
Exactly, emma. I’m a Gers fan and grew up watching Brown, Durrant, Gough, Coisty etc. Guys who wore their heart on their sleeve and DID genuinely care about the shirt they wore on a Saturday afternoon and knew what it meant to the paying customer.
If a player has genuine reason to feel hard done by and fights his corner cos he cares, then fair enough but not when it’s only done cos it’s the modern way.
This mentality of ‘Look, he’s done that’ or ‘Look, he pushed me and I fell down – give me something’ is a shame.
So, how are we going to change the minds of fans from falling victim to the pshycological abuse their “own” club treat them with?
I think most fans just want their team to win, whatever the cost, because if they didn’t, they wouldn’t go, professional football is that bad commercially.
I’d take a win via a dodgy penalty, three points is three points after all, but it would feel tainted (unless it was against Celtic :wink: )
I hate players diving or trying to con the ref, even if it is my own team. We can’t do anything, but managers can and our respective FA’s could if they wanted to. If a player is accused of diving then – as with situations where player is accused of violent conduct missed by the ref – it should go to a review panel. Then punish both the player and the club.
How come if a manager or player questions how competent the officials are in a post match interview then they can be pulled up for it but it’s different in a match? Some of the reactions we see are clearly signs that the player/manager thinks that the referee/linesman is getting all his decisions wrong, therefore questioning his competence, but that goes unpunished.
@johnboy25 wrote:
I hate players diving or trying to con the ref, even if it is my own team. We can’t do anything, but managers can and our respective FA’s could if they wanted to.
We can do something, we could stop going.
Managers can, but they wont because they get paid alot of money.
The FA wont, because we dont complain enough.Politicians dont do what we want, because we dont vote. It is down to us, but were lazy, we wait for others to do what we want. Fans think that because they pay alot of money, that they’ll get looked after, we have to WANT it badly enough.
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