While acting up is a problem in professional football, anyone who actually believes these players fall like flies at the smallest hint of contact have so obviously never seen a match up close, much less played football at even the junior level. Football can be a pretty brutal contact sport.

There are very well defined rules for how you can tackle someone, but those rules allow that 90 kg player can basically mow you down at 25 km/h as long as they do it right. If you've ever looked closely at how these players fight for the ball (or played at a decent junior level or higher), you'll notice that most adults would quite simply be knocked to the pitch and more or less kept there if they ever tried beating a high level player to the ball.

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tetris11 2 points 3 months ago

I guess it's just when they suddenly pull themselves away from the pearly gates once the referee decides that he's not having it, and God decides to personally intervene and restore their souls back to them.

The whiplash from the sudden recovery can be jarring

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tutter 2 points 3 months ago

Thinking about it, adrenaline is probably a biiiig factor at play. People can show the same behaviour after car crashes just due to FOF instincts + adrenaline overflow

Not saying theatre doesn't happen, but it's probably mucg more nuanced than it seems, almost everything is after all

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Hathaway 2 points 3 months ago

No. It’s that you’re rewarded for playing it up. If there’s a higher chance of getting a call, and no way to really stop it from happening, why would you not overplay every minor event? Especially at the higher tiers where skill gaps aren’t so noticeable.

It happens in every sport.

Here’s a compilation of American manly men being manly in our superior masculine sport

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BillyClark 20 points 3 months ago

Maybe the helmet isn't too heavy, but it did hit his foot with the edge of the helmet. He should probably double check that he didn't leave any severed toes back there.

On a less silly note, he dropped the helmet on his own foot, so there's no point to taking a dive. It's strange, but sometimes, a player will cry and feign injury when an opponent simply comes close to them, but then later, they'll play through an actual injury that they caused themselves, as if it didn't matter.

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ech 12 points 3 months ago

but then later, they'll play through an actual injury that they caused themselves, as if it didn't matter.

Because the intent is the best outcome for them and their team. If they can pull a foul and get an advantage, that betters the team's chances. And if they think they're better off on the field instead of on the bench, they'll play through.

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tio_bira 3 points 3 months ago

neymar if he had worked a single day on his life...

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CombatWombat 1 point 3 months ago

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SatansMaggotyCumFart -27 points 3 months ago

I think you misspelled 'soccer.'

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