Head injuries

[Fish]

Isn’t it time for professional players to stop grabbing their faces and veining injury at the slightest contact.

I for one find it pathetic. A definite possibility of wolf being cried . 

Bang on head, your off simple as . No way can concussion be assessed on the pitch.

[SpacedX]

31 minutes ago, Fish said:

Isn’t it time for professional players to stop grabbing their faces and veining injury at the slightest contact.

I for one find it pathetic. A definite possibility of wolf being cried . 

Bang on head, your off simple as . No way can concussion be assessed on the pitch.

 

I detest the way that this shameful and shameless play acting has become part of the game and escapes unpunished. Moreover, the fact that commentators and pundits don't call out players that indulge in these theatrics. 

[davieG]

It's not just faces though is it?

 

One of the pluses from the past is that players wouldn't have wanted the opposition to know they'd been hurt.

 

No team is innocent of this.

[RowlattsFox]

Forced substitution, even if temporary, for every head injury so players can be checked properly would help injured players in genuine cases but also stop people pretending they've been injured when they haven't. 

 

Footballers are embarrassing and must have no shame. Managers don't call them out on it unless it's an opposition player. I'm very much at a stage where I still love football but don't really like footballers, there are a few exceptions of course. 

[Fox92]

One thing that I've heared that has started to happen is screaming. Players seem to scream when they go down now (some players) and I started to notice now given there is no fans in and it's clearly heard.

 

Players need to look around and see when a serious injury does happen. Jiminez fractured his skull yesterday. It's serious injury in his life not just career. It's about time players stopped acting. I remember Daniel James last year going down holding is head and nothing was wrong with him. It's shameful. I saw Shearer say "it's about time football woke up" but I think it's about time players woke up.

Edited 30 November 2020 by Fox92

[SpacedX]

4 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

One thing that I've heared that has started to happen is screaming. Players seem to scream when they go down now (some players) and I started to notice now given there is no fans in and it's clearly heard.

 

The yelling is ****ing absurd - particularly when you watch the replay and there's practically no contact. And then, subsequently watch a game of rugby league or union. 

 

Yesterday Reguilón went down as though he was raked by a firing squad, clutching his head in the process - to the outrage of the Spurs bench. The replay showed that it was a consequence of an opponents flailing palm, that barely glanced him on the temple. I recall Liverpool being 1-2 up and Naby Keïta hurling himself to the deck clasping his head to kill momentum during the dying moments of our league encounter at home in September 2018. Actually, this shit happens all the time. Jota's cringeworthy late penalty appeal against Brighton which involved him writhing and bucking around on the floor like a floundering electric eel is just pathetic and should be openly laughed at by commentators and during punditry/highlights to deter players from indulging in such comical theatrics...but a player feigning impact or injury to the head should be routinely named and shamed. 

[Fox92]

3 minutes ago, Line-X said:

The yelling is ****ing absurd - particularly when you watch the replay and there's practically no contact. And then, subsequently watch a game of rugby league or union. 

 

Yesterday Reguilón went down as though he was raked by a firing squad, clutching his head in the process - to the outrage of the Spurs bench. The replay showed that it was a consequence of an opponents flailing palm, that barely glanced him on the temple. I recall Liverpool being 1-2 up and Naby Keïta hurling himself to the deck clasping his head to kill momentum during the dying moments of our league encounter at home in September 2018. Actually, this shit happens all the time. Jota's cringeworthy late penalty appeal against Brighton which involved him writhing and bucking around on the floor like a floundering electric eel is just pathetic and should be openly laughed at by commentators and during punditry/highlights to deter players from indulging in such comical theatrics...but a player feigning impact or injury to the head should be routinely named and shamed. 

Really annoys me does the shouting, probably more than the actual dive. It's just cheating. Conning everybody that you're hurt. It's a joke.

[SpacedX]

2 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Really annoys me does the shouting, probably more than the actual dive. It's just cheating. Conning everybody that you're hurt. It's a joke.

It's completely ignored though, which means it becomes an accepted norm and kids imitate it on the parks and playing fields. I find it utterly bemusing that officials, journalists, the game itself and the fans that follow it allow it to continue. 

 

Another thing that pisses me off is players that start beating the turf in mock agony when they go down. Gray is a frequent culprit. 

[fuchsntf]

1 hour ago, Line-X said:

 

I detest the way that this shameful and shameless play acting has become part of the game and escapes unpunished. Moreover, the fact that commentators and pundits don't call out players that indulge in these theatrics. 

 

36 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

One thing that I've heared that has started to happen is screaming. Players seem to scream when they go down now (some players) and I started to notice now given there is no fans in and it's clearly heard.

 

Players need to look around and see when a serious injury does happen. Jiminez fractured his skull yesterday. It's serious injury in his life not just career. It's about time players stopped acting. I remember Daniel James last year going down holding is head and nothing was wrong with him. It's shameful. I saw Shearer say "it's about time football woke up" but I think it's about time players woke up.

 

2 minutes ago, Line-X said:

It's completely ignored though, which means it becomes an accepted norm and kids imitate it on the parks and playing fields. I find it utterly bemusing that officials, journalists, the game itself and the fans that follow it allow it to continue. 

 

Another thing that pisses me off is players that start beating the turf in mock agony when they go down. Gray is a frequent culprit. 

there should be a Weekly fair Play panel....Somethings cant be seen to be blatant..but those that can obviously seen as feigning..!!!

Player fine...Manager fine, Club fine...happens again point deduction....

Ref, recognises some player  ,gets Flipped on the chest,but Grabs his face ( even when a foul)...Yellow card..

 

But also Stop giving outt cards, vor every 'all Day ' foul, unless player is free & homing on goal/Tactical foul..!!

[ajthefox]

55 minutes ago, Line-X said:

It's completely ignored though, which means it becomes an accepted norm and kids imitate it on the parks and playing fields. I find it utterly bemusing that officials, journalists, the game itself and the fans that follow it allow it to continue. 

 

Another thing that pisses me off is players that start beating the turf in mock agony when they go down. Gray is a frequent culprit. 

Do you think there is anything that fans can actually do to combat this?

[Fox92]

1 minute ago, ajthefox said:

Do you think there is anything that fans can actually do to combat this?

Only thing that fans do that annoy me collectively is boo good tackles. I see it every week, home and away games. A challenge goes in, a fair/good challenge, and people kick off. And it's probably the same people who complain football isn't a "contact sport" anymore.

[SpacedX]

10 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

Do you think there is anything that fans can actually do to combat this?

Not necessarily and not directly, but it amazes me how tolerant and acceptant of this nonsense they actually are. I'm not suggesting that such silence should be taken as tacit approval of players behaving in this way but it astonishes me in this age of opinionated online populist emotion that football fans don't express greater levels of objection to this needless play acting.