Cheating?
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:39 pm
Just something to throw out there lads. With all the pontificating in the papers and the like over Suarez and the handball over the weekend, what are yer thoughts on it?
Now leave aside any bias whether you gravitate towards Liverpool, Man Utd or any of the rest of it, and honest opinions.
Personally, I always felt great when you got away with something, a bag of apples from an orchard that you would never eat! to a push or pull on a jersey. A blatant square ball that wasnt given, a wide thta was waved over. All these things happened in the GAA, and we would laugh about it in the pub after.
The non neutral umpires were a different thing, if they made a bad call , then woe betide them!!
My point is that when you are playing sport, no matter what level, you are always looking for an edge, (to me, deliberately injuring an opponent was a no no and used to hate to hear lads laughing about it afterwards, that is "the work of a cheat" in my eyes, plus getting lads booked by diving).. But when you are caught up in the heat of a game, if you pick a ball off the ground, nudge in the back, score a square ball goal, pull down a forward to prevent a goal,.....and get away with it, it aint your fault, its the ref, umpires, linesmen, whatever. I cant think of any man who ever pulled up and said sorry ref, took 7 steps there.
I think papers and the like take the ordinary punters for mugs, sure, sad to see a non league team the victim of a harsh call, dont think Suarez milked the moment, the way he kicked the ball into the net, he fully expected it to be called back.
Sport aint perfect and thats where trying to get the edge is subjective to many people, especially those who never played to any degree.
Assume Alex Ferguson will be using it to try and wind up the referee against the "cheat" for match at the weekend, and so the merry go round of hype goes on and on.....
To me, solving the whole thing would be a TMO like the rugby to call on at the refs discretion, but my main point is that shit happens in sport and sometimes you have to suck it up.
For me, one of the sickest feelings of being cheated was 99 hurling semi final v Cork, and the feeling that tricky Dicky had twisted the knife and cost us that day...and also 2004 in Kilkenny in the replay v Kildare, Clocker got the line after Martin Lynch took a dive to earn him a second yellow. Jayz we were flying at that stage, and lost the game after extra time.
Now leave aside any bias whether you gravitate towards Liverpool, Man Utd or any of the rest of it, and honest opinions.
Personally, I always felt great when you got away with something, a bag of apples from an orchard that you would never eat! to a push or pull on a jersey. A blatant square ball that wasnt given, a wide thta was waved over. All these things happened in the GAA, and we would laugh about it in the pub after.
The non neutral umpires were a different thing, if they made a bad call , then woe betide them!!
My point is that when you are playing sport, no matter what level, you are always looking for an edge, (to me, deliberately injuring an opponent was a no no and used to hate to hear lads laughing about it afterwards, that is "the work of a cheat" in my eyes, plus getting lads booked by diving).. But when you are caught up in the heat of a game, if you pick a ball off the ground, nudge in the back, score a square ball goal, pull down a forward to prevent a goal,.....and get away with it, it aint your fault, its the ref, umpires, linesmen, whatever. I cant think of any man who ever pulled up and said sorry ref, took 7 steps there.
I think papers and the like take the ordinary punters for mugs, sure, sad to see a non league team the victim of a harsh call, dont think Suarez milked the moment, the way he kicked the ball into the net, he fully expected it to be called back.
Sport aint perfect and thats where trying to get the edge is subjective to many people, especially those who never played to any degree.
Assume Alex Ferguson will be using it to try and wind up the referee against the "cheat" for match at the weekend, and so the merry go round of hype goes on and on.....
To me, solving the whole thing would be a TMO like the rugby to call on at the refs discretion, but my main point is that shit happens in sport and sometimes you have to suck it up.
For me, one of the sickest feelings of being cheated was 99 hurling semi final v Cork, and the feeling that tricky Dicky had twisted the knife and cost us that day...and also 2004 in Kilkenny in the replay v Kildare, Clocker got the line after Martin Lynch took a dive to earn him a second yellow. Jayz we were flying at that stage, and lost the game after extra time.