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Old 09-12-2013, 05:19 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by lukasberger View Post
That not true at all.
My comment was in large part tongue-in-cheek. I didn't think a smiley was necessary, but I apparently misjudged things.

Every time I've seen but just a few minutes of a soccer match there's a dive of one sort or another. The really ridiculous part is when a player is rolling around on the ground, supposedly in agony, gets carried off the field on a stretcher, then just a few minutes later has miraculously recovered and returns to play apparently perfectly fine from what seemed like such a terrible injury that he had to be carried of the field. That sort of thing makes the sport look like a joke.

Interestingly, from what I saw of the Women's World Cup, there was almost no diving at all. That made the women's game far more enjoyable for me.
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