Topic: "Stay On Your Feet!" - What's the point?

[StevenLFC]

If you are fouled you cannot dive. I class diving as a foul not occuring and a player going to ground. A defender must ensure that they don't foul. If they don't then they can't moan about a player going down.

I agree, but my topic wasn't about diving, it was about going down when you've been fouled, even if it was possible to stay up.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

I agree, but my topic wasn't about diving, it was about going down when you've been fouled, even if it was possible to stay up.

How do you know it's possible though? If enough contact is made then you'll go down.

Slow motion is quite often misleading.

I prefer players to stay on their feet and I currently don't see anything to suggest that Suarez looks for dives. To me he looks too eager to 'do something' rather than waste it by going down and not even getting a chance to score a freekick himself.

[StevenLFC]

How do you know it's possible though? If enough contact is made then you'll go down.

Slow motion is quite often misleading.

I prefer players to stay on their feet and I currently don't see anything to suggest that Suarez looks for dives. To me he looks too eager to 'do something' rather than waste it by going down and not even getting a chance to score a freekick himself.

I'd say Lucas v Arsenal when he was pushed or Joey Barton v Arsenal when he was slapped could both have stayed up, both went down. One got a penalty the other got the opposition player sent off.

[Pride-Of-The-Midlands]

How do you know it's possible though? If enough contact is made then you'll go down.

Slow motion is quite often misleading.

I prefer players to stay on their feet and I currently don't see anything to suggest that Suarez looks for dives. To me he looks too eager to 'do something' rather than waste it by going down and not even getting a chance to score a freekick himself.

I haven't seen Suarez dive but he does go down easily.