The touchiest of subjects and one of the two most common non football behaviors on the field. Why can’t we talk about staging? Players like to bump thump and niggle and they love to bluff the ump. It’s part of the game. The art of the niggle is to hurt without damage. The art of the the bluff is to trick the umpire while making it look like normal play. Let’s at least admire the good ones if you are going to ridicule the bad. … and … You are deluded if you think soccer has any kind of monopoly. Should we punish it? Then we would have to talk about it which no one wants to do. Just sweep the elephant in the room under the carpet and try not to trip on it. As a start let’s give it a poetic reference we can allude to while not addressing it. Staging is an ugly word and no one wants to own up to it. Lets call it ‘fishing’ or ‘baiting the hook’ or ‘reeling him in’.
Chanon
Roar Rookie
Reckon if he went for concussion he would have been delirious :silly:
Goalsonly
Roar Rookie
The touchiest of subjects and one of the two most common non football behaviors on the field. Why can’t we talk about staging? Players like to bump thump and niggle and they love to bluff the ump. It’s part of the game. The art of the niggle is to hurt without damage. The art of the the bluff is to trick the umpire while making it look like normal play. Let’s at least admire the good ones if you are going to ridicule the bad. … and … You are deluded if you think soccer has any kind of monopoly. Should we punish it? Then we would have to talk about it which no one wants to do. Just sweep the elephant in the room under the carpet and try not to trip on it. As a start let’s give it a poetic reference we can allude to while not addressing it. Staging is an ugly word and no one wants to own up to it. Lets call it ‘fishing’ or ‘baiting the hook’ or ‘reeling him in’.