World Cup Soccer

[Skip N]

I enjoy all the fake injuries. A guy will be down screaming holding his ankle for 5 minutes and suddenly he gets up like nothing ever happened. Yeah, i love soccer and thier fake injuries

[janiejones]

I am all about Portugal (being full-blooded Portuguese!) I was on the edge of my seat for the entire 3 hour game against England. Those Brits are bloody bitter - they're completely dissing my boy Cristiano Ronaldo!

[spence]

Originally Posted by Skip N

I enjoy all the fake injuries. A guy will be down screaming holding his ankle for 5 minutes and suddenly he gets up like nothing ever happened. Yeah, i love soccer and thier fake injuries

Well, while there certainly are a lot of dives, it's no different than selling a foul like in Hockey. And remember if the ref thinks it was a real dive he can give a yellow for the insult.

A lot of time they simply stay down to eat the clock, get some rest etc...

Portugal is especially bad at using dives to kill the other teams momentum. The past few games it was like if their opponents had any offence building you'd see a Portugal player on the ground not a few moments later

Some good matches this last round...My money's on France

-spence

[Surfcastinglife]

if football, basketball, hockey didn't have 45 minute long halves with no breaks you'd see alot of "fake" injuries too ;P its just a chance to grab some water and a little break