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they don't flop all over the "pitch" :)103631605) looking like bad actors
 

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Um, did you see the Ghana/US game? Yeah they do, but no worse than any of the rest of these teams.

I like the World Cup but I doubt I could ever get that into Soccer because of the officiating/bad acting by all the players. That stuff has a huge impact on every game, like the Brazil guy going out early. Seemed like that happens on every play but who knows...
 

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Somehow, it really wouldn't surprise me if some teams actually did take some "Acting Classes".
 

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I hate the diving and flopping, but we have the same thing the NBA and NFL, just not as bad.

How many times does Kobe/D Wade drive the lane and act like someone raped them. They did get raped, of the ball.

WRs in the NFL act like they get shoved out of bounds on every play and Randy Moss pushes off like it is his job. Every sport has some flaws.
 

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Do you refer to them as Ghanarians?
Or is that PC incorrect?
 

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I hate the diving and flopping, but we have the same thing the NBA and NFL, just not as bad.

How many times does Kobe/D Wade drive the lane and act like someone raped them. They did get raped, of the ball.

WRs in the NFL act like they get shoved out of bounds on every play and Randy Moss pushes off like it is his job. Every sport has some flaws.

I mostly agree with that but soccer seems way more prone to bad officiating, subjective calls deciding outcomes. THe whole red card/yellow card thing just seems very subjective to me.
 

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I mostly agree with that but soccer seems way more prone to bad officiating, subjective calls deciding outcomes. THe whole red card/yellow card thing just seems very subjective to me.
In the end you are right here, it's subjective and depends on the way the referee in an actual game wants to call that game...if he allows the teams to get more physical or not.
But isn't that the same way with basketball and (american) football, too? You get refs calling some bullshit handcheck fouls while others don't even call a foul when you actually run over your opponent or lower your shoulder and knock him to the ground...same thing in football: There are probably numerous holding or pass interference calls that are made or not made during a game, that a different ref would have called different...and these flags will influence a football game as much as any foul/card in a soccer game in my opinion.
 

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