by johntheclaret » Tue May 10, 2011 3:26 am
I do really wonder sometimes, as I know a few of the posters on here and they are SANFL fans. Yet they get all excited watching EPL. It really is crap football, over sanitised and fake. Pretty much like AFL is compared to the more honest SANFL.
Perfect example was the first challenge on Rooney by Invanovic. No question it was a foul. But what actually happened? Invanovic stuck his leg across Rooney's trailing leg forcing him to effectively trip himself up. No serious contact, nothing more than a forced trip.
Rooney goes down. Looks up to see if the ref has seen the foul and then proceeds to roll about holding his shin. A) there was no contact on his shin whatsoever. b) Do they not wear shin pads?
The overacting prompts the idiot ref to hand out a yellow card. Now the ref might have decided he was going to give a yellow anyway, as it was a cynical trip, but that isn't my point. Rooney's sole aim was to get Ivanovic carded, effectively taking him out of the game.
Now I'm not having a go at Rooney or Man U for that matter, they are no worse than any other club in the division, but that 2 minutes summed up the EPL. Win at all costs...........
Last season my team made it to Nirvana and it was the worst, most frustrating season I have ever seen. Week after week 35 - 40 minutes of football with the rest of the game spent ******* about with fake injuries and over acting.
Give me a more honest CCC anytime.