Soccer is a Woman's Game
 

This is old news, but it's news to me...

That New Zealand rugby player Wayne "Buck" Shelford took a cleat to the crotch during a game and ripped open his scrotum leaving his testicle dangling, he got it sewed up on the bench and continued the game.

Source:
BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | International | Buck's All Blacks fizz
news.bbc.co.uk


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The article has a bit more stuff in it....
But 'll leave you to read it...

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was thought he'd need to have his leg amputated but after 26 operations the leg was saved but could never play soccer again; bbc refused to show replays and other angles and supposedly the pitch was bloody and needed to be cleaned before the game was resumed the goalie that you see freaking out is said to have needed therapy

this sort of injury happens often though


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http://www.oddee.com/item_96906.aspx with more video and info



oh and this guy

face first into the ground, swallowed his own tongue and almost died never played again but ended up being the coach for the Algerian team

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So why do they always pretend to be hurt, usually the most comically obvious ways possible?

You mean like this? :troll:


While I respect the ease of getting into the game of soccer much like how rugby allows almost anyone to pick up a ball and play, I HATE diving, and the fact players are worth hundreds of millions of dollars and willingly DIVE to save a play is disgusting. At least with rugby you know they're not diving, and play for what they're worth.

Free kicks, penalty kicks, get the other player out of the game by red card... Sometimes just to rest lol

Because even tho there are sometimes nasty injuries like most sports soccer players ar.e winey bitches

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I can't find the clip... but the best fake injury I've seen is when one guy
grabbed his opponent's hand and hit himself in the face. Then proceeded to roll on the floor
like he got shot in the face.

Must be this one.

LOLLLL!!! anyy moreee? love this shit!

ITT: morons who don't know anything about soccer.

Rugby =/= Soccer

Irrelevant thread title

Title was a comment on how soccer is a game that enables diving. And how they won't fly in rugby.

So faking injuries to get an upper hand is considered "part of the game"? I didn't know cheating and being a professional actor was supposed to be on the resume of a world-class professional soccer player, especially when some are being paid over 100 million dollars to play.

Why dont the divers get a red card?

I know in the NHL if you dive and a ref calls a penalty cause of it, he'll have it in for you and not call the not-so-obvious ones. It's like the Ref wants to preserve the integrity game or something?

Soccer is a great game, it's just more often than not, it's played by a bunch of whiny little bitches.

Both are great sports to watch. If only i can be 1/100000 as good as anyone of those players. Respect.

But you got to love the All Blacks Haka war dance

they get penalized if its seen that they're faking or they get ignored

the problem is that its hard to catch that's why fans players etc have been calling for refs to watch replays

even the nhl just reviews video for goals (its easier for the refs to catch fouls though as compared to soccer)

there are time concerns etc etc blahblah blah



why are trolls trolls? they can get away with it ;(

Let's just say soccer players have a reputation for stretching the truth when it comes to getting hurt. Probably the biggest example of this theory would be Brazil's Rivaldo during the 2002 World Cup during a match against Turkey. Rivaldo's fake injury occurred when a Turkish player kicked the ball towards him in order for Rivaldo to take his corner kick. The ball hit Rivaldo in the leg, but he immediately grabbed his face and dropped to the pitch looking to be in tremendous pain. The Turkish player, Hakan Unsal, was red carded, but Rivaldo's performance was fined by FIFA and shown by Don Cherry on Coach's Corner as an illustration of how not to act while competing.

I've seen more diving in men's soccer than women's soccer. So to call soccer players "women" is stupid. Your title is stupid too.

Womens' soccer can get catty as fuck though.

That's dumb. Diving is a part of every sport.

don't pretend like you guys don't think this isn't what makes the game fun to watch

it's fucking 90 minutes of people running up and down a fucking field.

Diving is not part of rugby because the play keeps going regardless so if you're laying on the ground faking you're hurting your team.

Quite interesting to see the medics come out to attend to a real injury while the play is still flying passed them back and forth and the guy gets back up and rejoins the game.

Rugby players are the toughest fuckers in sports. legit.