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Originally Posted by leedsfan
At any rate, what did you think of the de Rossi dive though? In your honest opinion? Did you think that he embellished it? Have you seen italians do it before now in previous world cups?
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Of course he embellished it.
I wish I could find a clip of the Ghana player embelshing his dive. Oh, and Cristiano Ronaldo anyone?
My point is every team has divers. The first lesson you learn in professional soccer is that if you are touched at all, fall down and roll around like your leg was just severed. Tell me I'm wrong? Its absolutely disgraceful that refs don't chastise players that get up and run around uninjured after trying to convey they were.
People bag on the Italian team because they ended up perfecting it and used it to their advantage. Video replay isn't a solution for this as its just going to destroy the game and the pace.
If you add just one more on-field refs and both refs stick to a 1/2 of the pitch, it would cut down on a lot of bad calls and start reducing diving and allow two refs to compare what they saw to provide better calls.
Lets face it, a ref running from behind upwards of a 1/4 field away is NOT going to see a dive correctly. The side refs really can't catch much as they're looking for offsides and OOB, not looking for fouls.
That's why the NHL added a 2nd ref as one wasn't sufficient anymore for the pace and skill of the game.