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Theatrical deceit in football, faked injuries in rugby, even disturbing allegations in Formula One that Renault may have orchestrated a dangerous crash so that its two-time world champion Fernando Alonso could win last year’s Singapore Grand Prix.

And that’s just of late.

Cheating, of course, has existed since cavemen started competing for the best hunks of flesh from speared prey. But was it ever so cynical?

Blame the pressures of money, of coaches, of television, of fans, blame whatever.

But somehow, somewhere, too many of those in sports — at their own cost — seem to be forgetting the examples set by chivalrous predecessors like Gottfried von Cramm, the two-time French Open tennis champion who was famed for both his sportsmanship and his ferocious second serve.

This was a player who would apologize when called for foot faults and once refused a Davis Cup match point because he felt he had won undeservedly.

Perhaps it’s naive and idealistic to wish that athletes could be so honest now.

Take the case of Eduardo da Silva.

Fairly or not — and that is a matter for debate — the Arsenal striker is now the poster boy for football’s problem of players seeking to hoodwink referees by pretending to have been fouled.

Taking a dive, simulation, call it what you will, it all amounts to the same thing: cheating.

Perhaps, as Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger suggests, Eduardo is still tackle-shy after the horrific broken leg inflicted on him 18 months ago by Birmingham defender Martin Taylor.

Taylor’s right boot scraped down Eduardo’s left shin to his ankle, which dislocated to a sickening right-angle.

Broadcaster Sky Sports wouldn’t show replays because they were too distressing.ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 201

Maybe, just maybe, the subconscious scars left by such a wound help explain why Eduardo hurled himself to the deck when he and Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc found themselves on a penalty-box collision course during an Aug. 26 Champions League playoff.

But where Eduardo erred was not leaping straight back to his feet and telling the Spanish referee that Boruc hadn’t touched him, that he had fallen and not been deliberately tripped.

Instead, Eduardo allowed Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez to award a penalty against Boruc.

Suggesting that Eduardo could have piped up, could have been as honest as he has proved himself brave in recovering from injury, is not as far-fetched as it may sound.

Striker Robbie Fowler, then at Liverpool, did exactly that in an almost identical penalty-box situation in 1997.

Fowler won a UEFA Fair Play award for remonstrating with referee Gerald Ashby that Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman hadn’t fouled him.

Eduardo, in contrast, was slapped on Tuesday with a two-match Champions League ban. It is the price of his silence. He has no one to blame but himself.

Wegner called it “a witch hunt.”

Why not?

It matters not that UEFA dusted off an obscure rule to prosecute this case. Just because UEFA has been lackadaisical in the past doesn’t condemn it to inaction now.

Nor does it matter that there are far worse divers than Eduardo. Given how widespread diving has become in top-flight football, the whip had to be cracked somewhere.

And ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010 or not, it cracked on Eduardo.

“The question you should really be asking is why are UEFA having to do this? The reason is that players are increasingly trying to gain an advantage through simulation,” says former Premier League and FIFA referee Graham Barber.

“The players have created the problem,” he adds.

They need to be part of the solution, too.



Theatrical deceit in football, faked injuries in rugby, even disturbing allegations in Formula One that Renault may have orchestrated a dangerous crash so that its two-time world champion Fernando Alonso could win last year’s Singapore Grand Prix.

And that’s just of late.

Cheating, of course, has existed since cavemen started competing for the best hunks of flesh from speared prey. But was it ever so cynical?

Blame the pressures of money, of coaches, of television, of fans, blame whatever.

But somehow, somewhere, too many of those in sports — at their own cost — seem to be forgetting the examples set by chivalrous predecessors like Gottfried von Cramm, the two-time French Open tennis champion who was famed for both his sportsmanship and his ferocious second serve.

This was a ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 201o player who would apologize when called for foot faults and once refused a Davis Cup match point because he felt he had won undeservedly.

Perhaps it’s naive and idealistic to wish that athletes could be so honest now.

Take the case of Eduardo da Silva.

Fairly or not — and that is a matter for debate — the Arsenal striker is now the poster boy for football’s problem of players seeking to hoodwink referees by pretending to have been fouled.

Taking a dive, simulation, call it what you will, it all amounts to the same thing: cheating.

Perhaps, as Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger suggests, Eduardo is still tackle-shy after the horrific broken leg inflicted on him 18 months ago by Birmingham defender Martin Taylor.

Taylor’s right boot scraped down Eduardo’s left shin to his ankle, which dislocated to a sickening right-angle.

Broadcaster Sky Sports wouldn’t show replays because they were too distressing.

Maybe, just maybe, the subconscious scars left by such a wound help explain why Eduardo hurled himself to the deck when he and Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc found themselves on a penalty-box collision course during an Aug. 26 Champions League playoff.

But ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010 where Eduardo erred was not leaping straight back to his feet and telling the Spanish referee that Boruc hadn’t touched him, that he had fallen and not been deliberately tripped.

Instead, Eduardo allowed Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez to award a penalty against Boruc.

Suggesting that Eduardo could have piped up, could have been as honest as he has proved himself brave in recovering from injury, is not as far-fetched as it may sound.

Striker Robbie Fowler, then at Liverpool, did exactly that in an almost identical penalty-box situation in 1997.

Fowler won a UEFA ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 201 award for remonstrating with referee Gerald Ashby that Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman hadn’t fouled him.

Eduardo, in contrast, was slapped on Tuesday with a two-match Champions League ban. It is the price of his silence. He has no one to blame but himself.

Wegner called it “a witch hunt.”

Why not?

It matters not that UEFA dusted off an obscure rule to prosecute this case. Just because UEFA has been lackadaisical in the past doesn’t condemn it to inaction now.

Nor does it matter that there are far worse divers than Eduardo. Given how widespread diving has become in top-flight football, the whip had to be cracked somewhere.

And ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 201 or not, it cracked on Eduardo.

“The question you should really be asking is why are UEFA having to do this? The reason is that players are increasingly trying to gain an advantage through simulation,” says former Premier League and FIFA referee Graham Barber.

“The players have created the problem,” he adds.

They need to be part of the solution, too.

FIFA’s concept of ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010 is fundamental to the game of soccer: “It represents the positive benefits of playing by the rules, using common sense and respecting fellow players, referees, opponents and fans,” according to www.fifa.com.

But someone may have forgotten to tell the players.

FIFA’s ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010 Campaign was conceived largely as a result of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, when the handball goal – Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” – provoked a reaction with ramifications way beyond the English fans.

ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010 2006? Doesn’t look like it to me. Already these finals have produced more red cards than any previous World Cup (25) – and we still have eight games to go.

FIFA has a major problem. Some years ago they began to clamp down on tackling from behind. They also encouraged referees to stand no nonsense on ill-timed sliding tackles. You wouldn’t know it by watching the games this year.

More tackles are taking place from a horizontal position than from an upright one. Slide tackling has become the cynical skill of the 21st Century.

To be ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010, the speed of today’s players and the vastly superior playing surfaces allow highly incisive challenges to be made by putting the body on the ground – assisted by speedy approach runs.

The result? Either a spectacular ball-winning tackle or the taking of an opponents legs.

In some children’s soccer programs slide tackling is banned. I think that is good. It teaches the children to defend while staying on their feet, and helps them avoid injuries that may turn young players off the game.

In spite of their great attacking skills, African teams did not make much progress at this World Cup – other than Ghana – because their players defend indiscriminately. The two-footed, sliding-in-on-the-backside, scissor-chop is the most insidious tackle in the game. And it is alive, if not well, in Africa.

So a ban on slide tackling? I don’t think so! It is a skill of the game. But the punishment for indiscriminate, potentially career-ending slide tackles should be a red card – no hesitation. It would make every player think twice before putting themselves on the ground.

There is, however, another equally pervasive problem: diving.ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010 The way players fall writhing to the ground after the slightest contact – or sometimes no contact at all – would suggest there are snipers in the stands.

The Portugal/Holland game was the highlight so far. Players were going down like bowling pins. But it’s happening in the other games, too.

And there is no need for it.

Take the late, great George Best never had the opportunity to play in a World Cup Final given he was born in Northern Ireland. He rode nearly every challenge that came his way, stayed on his feet with his incredible balance, with every intention of scoring. Occasionally, he was bowled off the ball, but never of his own choice.

Players today make great use of the trainers, who must be fantastic. Miracle workers, really, given the number of players who go down – apparently mortally wounded – and two minutes later can be seen is sprinting all over the field.

FIFA must take action, even if it is post-game. Referees, unlike team trainers, are not miracle men and can’t see everything. But with the benefit of multi-TV cameras, every split sound of action can be closely-evaluated after the event. so the arenabetting.com many support to fair play worl cup 2010 south afrika ArenaBetting.com dukung fair play FIFA world cup AFSEL 2010

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