Show us your animated GIFs... [Volume 3]
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Beefmeister said:
OK ok, I got that a bit mixed up, that's what comes of viewing these things on a phone.
But my choice and comment still stands.
The Brazil player was simply drawing the ref's attention to a rather nasty foul. This is something rugby players also do, albeit without the leaping about.But my choice and comment still stands.
Football is a global game; it involves many different cultures, for some of whom play-acting is perfectly acceptable - it's no surprise that some of this finds its way onto the pitch.
Rugby has a much more limited appeal and is mostly played by Anglo-Saxon countries, so the Anglo-Saxon culture has come to predominate.
Why you consider a vicious and unprovoked assault to be more acceptable than a bit of play-acting is a bit of a puzzle, however. Neither are part of their respective games, and can be sanctioned by the referee, but only one could result in life-threatening injuries. Yet that is what you prefer and advocate as being somehow admirable - that's a very odd perspective to take.
olly22n said:
Frimley111R said:
Where does violence on the rugby pitch stop though? 3 punches and he wasn't sent off?! Would he have been for 4 or 5? I know they are tough guys but they are playing rugby supposedly and I don't remember trying to punch an opponents lights out as something that's part of the rules?
Punching is illegal - it wasn't spotted by the ref.
JMGS4 said:
olly22n said:
Frimley111R said:
Where does violence on the rugby pitch stop though? 3 punches and he wasn't sent off?! Would he have been for 4 or 5? I know they are tough guys but they are playing rugby supposedly and I don't remember trying to punch an opponents lights out as something that's part of the rules?
Punching is illegal - it wasn't spotted by the ref.
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