Not seen it mentioned but Jacob Brown

Adapt and cheat

 

He threw himself down like he'd been shot. No way did the level he was touched result in that reaction naturally. It was a dive to try to get someone sent off. That or he's made of paper.

 

One of England’s better strikers was also one of the biggest cheats in the game, Alan Shearer.

 

Adie Moses...

 

Today’s game I’m affraid

 

It's awful isn't it hearing the ex pros just excuse cheating. I hate to see our players do things like that. With the implementation of VAR I hoped things would improve. But it seems everyone has been conditioned to think even the slightest of touches means it's a foul regardless of how theoretical the players throwing himself down is. I can't see it ever changing.

 

Agreed that’s why he’s against Var

 

Dreary me soft get

 

It is very unusual for me to criticise referees, but yesterday, it all got too much. He was awful and he was buying everything that Sheffield Wednesday offered. And then Cauley Woodrow bought an obvious one, and I was left with nowhere to go. Of course, I had to criticise Woodrow as well. I have no idea what happened in football. Players are now encouraged to cry out after every tackle, like the tackler just broke their leg, and in many cases, they were not touched at all. The play acting continues with play stopped for medical attention. It is all aimed at getting the name of the tackler into the referees mind, and because the refs know that they are also being judged (by their assessor), they are placed under added pressure to act, even if they have seen nothing. It is a conspiracy to wipe thuggery from the game, but it has gone too far, and honest competition for the ball is the victim. As a follower of the game since the 1960's, I can say that many things are better than they were, but this conning of officials, of which they are a very active participant, has undoubtedly made the game worse.

 

Best solution is to mic the referee up so the stadium can hear it like rugby. It would pick up what the players are saying too and when they say something trying to influence the ref everyone would hear it making it harder for the ref to pretend he hasn't heard it.

 

As said earlier stronger officials are the answer then there would be no influence from players

 

I'll poke you in the eye, see how you take it

 

Fook me it’s football get over it

 

After the game I would have taken his finger into the bar don’t poke me again

 

Agree, that's a jolly good idea.

 

He was never a cheat!

 

Saw it from the Family Stand, got caught with a flailing arm - could have been deliberate, hard to say without a replay, but absolutely no reason to crucify Browny for going down !

 

Whilst were on the subject of the 'dark arts', and as much as it pains me to say it, but I wish our players would try to pressure the ref a little bit. There were one or two fouls in the first half on us that looked a little dirty, but we said nothing. Then Chaplin goes over in the box and Bannan and one or two others are right in the refs face.

It usually leads to the first foul we do resulting in a yellow card, but luckily on Saturday it didn't come to that.

 

Woodrow who is an expert at it got a foul on Saturday and it was as comical as those fake insurance "hit by a car" claims.

 

He needs remedial 5hithousery training