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Posted 13/05/2008 18:25:47
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Hi I would like to know what people think of players, clubs and refs cheating at soccer I personally think they should be lined up against a wall and someone should bring 2 bullets ( incase the cheater survives the first, survivers will be shot again  and shoot them, I'm also for video ref.
wishing you well luke.
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 Posted 13/05/2008 19:17:19
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| Luke, I have to agree fully on this. I entered the forum to gbive my opinion on giving the players a break during the summer and noticed your post. Just had to have my say.This is my first (recent) season as a manager. I did manage a side from u 10 to u15 back in the days of 11 a side on full sived pitches for all age groups. Yeah, it sounds unbelievable now. That stint ended 14 years ago. So now I have become involved again. Any way I inherited a side going nowhere with parents threatening to leave if nothing changed. I offered my help to coach the boys and every one took a backward step and here I am. Any way, we have had a great season, the lads have worked tremendously hard. We have upped the discpline. Just stopped the messing around and started to take the game seriously. We were defeated only once the whole season and made runners up in the league, missing top spot only by goal difference. We made the cup final and this is what hurt. 1 - 0 up and nearing the end of the game. An oposition player asks the ref how long to go. He says time up, one minute injury time. Over 7 mins later the opposition score to take the game into extra time. Yes, youv'e guessed it, my players totally deflated, lost 3 - 2 after extra time. During the second half of extra time one of my players took a shot and pole axed thier keeper with the power of the shot. Very brave keeper. He was given treatment, and rightly so, until he recovered. Almost three minutes. At this time the opposition were ahead and the ref blows for full time with no allowance for the keepers treatment. Although behind, at this stage we are the team doing all the attacking. The venue, the opposition home town pitch. The ref, young lad opposition home town, younger brother plays for opposition u 9s. The ref was just continuing the game until they scored and once they were ahead, ended the game asap. All who witnesed it, including the opposition staff were in total disbelief. How can we stop this when the referees governers just say its up to the referees discretion. And what value is the victory to the players who 's on behalf the ref cheated. The players can't be to blame but they are not stupid and they realise what was going on as well as my players. The ref even ran off the pitch at times to retrieve the ball for his home side. What a disgrace, where will it end. If cheating is the way forward, collectivly as a club, we can do without the trophies, we are just happy to play the game for fun.
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Posted 18/05/2008 19:42:31
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having been on a f.a coaching course recently ,the coach who was taking the course actively encouraged diving and gamesmanship
at a higher leval i.e the premiership etc.etc
but at grass roots leval it has no place, what message is that sending out?
whu
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