Raul Meireles went in to win a ball and caught a defender’s arm on his chest. He went down in apparent agony clutching his face. Replays showed that the Portuguese international wasn’t touched anywhere near his face, and had only received a slight brush across his chest area.
This type of simulation and play-acting always frustrates and maddens me; how can a grown man pretend to be hurt and act like that? How does he still walk down the street as a proud and popular man? If I acted like a baby like that I would be completely embarrassed and hide from the public for months.
Of course the former-Liverpool man is not the only one; unfortunately the Barclays Premier League is full of these over-exaggerating play-actors who do their best to win free-kicks from phantom fouls, or to get opposition players sent off with their Oscar-nominee performances.
I keep thinking back to the British players from the sixties and seventies who used to play through broken noses, dislocated shoulders and horrendous tackles, and what they must think of today’s Premier League Pansies.
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