Coyler

Team fouls like in basketball. Just for Stoke. Decent teams should have the option of being cynical when necessary.

... as the racist South African once posted on Red Cafe.

I was exaggerating. But it's interesting that he's made 701 senior appearances, the vast majority reffed by English football-fan referees who watch football, and he's only been adjudged to have committed a bookable offence once every seven matches. That is humorous and I am laughing at it.

I explicitly took their instances of comeuppance into account; it only looks like I'm ignoring them because they are so statistically insignificant...

Oh yes you are ... it's that notwithstanding the few times they are pulled up on it they consistently get away with far more of their constant cheating than football fans who watch matches can believe. These football-fan refs whose leisure-watching of matches innocently informs their reffing of Suárez are not allowing themselves to be similarly 'prejudiced' in respect of the likes of Bale and Scholes, for whatever reason. I await an outraged "Not on my watch!" dressing down for Bale. Scholes is still getting the chuckling benefit of the doubt for his first knee-high slider of each match, after twenty years of Sky Sports coverage showing him to be a total c*** who does it on purpose.

If this is the reason then they have all managed quite a feat in being English football fans and never having watched a match involving Gareth Bale or Paul Scholes.

:-)

And in the blink of an eye Cobs's rugby-thread post was forgotten!

The pure joy at about 0m57s is awesome.

Tremenjous.

First step is admitting you have a problem.

It is absolutely inconceivable that any referee whatsoever who has watched English football over the last few years is still honestly fooled by this fecker's dives. "Not on my watch, Bale!"

Is that how they paused it on Sky? That is so dodgy.

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Yeah really hard to tell, there, BBC

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This whole episode is phenomenal.

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Threw that away. Enjoyable defeat though.