Why wouldn't the league take this opportunity to come down hard on this guy? Flagrant simulation should come with significant fines and suspensions after review. It is guys like this that are making the officials jobs that much harder. The same guy was fined last week for simulation. Think is should be easy in situations like this where the ref made a mistake that the highest of penalties be handed down for a clear/successful attempt at cheating.
I was piss-taking...
Kyle Williams reffing MLS now?
Too soon?
Possibly. But better late then never right?
Same could be asked about my new avatar.
Too Soon?
I don't care what the rest of the world feels about it, and how accepted it is, in North America it is frowned upon, and the MLS needs to play to it's audience here.
I'd say that the white male viewer influenced by the British view of game is likely to be a minority and those are the ones that I see complaining the most about diving.
Sad how the Southern Europeans and the Central and South Americans have ruined the game we invented.
You know, the competitor in me can understand a player doing anything in his means to win...including cheating the ref. I just wish they'd do a better job of it. The simulation in today's game is crazy. The over the top dive is somehow accepted.LOL.
Funny thing about the whole diving issue is that in Brazil you only see it in the pros. It's similar to baseball's old saying that "if you're not cheating you're not trying". Fans back home EXPECT their side's players to con the refs (while bitching and complaining when the other team's do it). But if you were to try diving in a beer league game you'll be a laughing stock and will be run off the field...
Really?
I'd say among the audience in TTP for sure, but in North America?
Tough to find reliable statistics but if I am to trust what I could find (http://www.sounderatheart.com/2016/...ta-offers-demographic-snapshot-of-the-mls-fan) I'd say that the white male viewer influenced by the British view of game is likely to be a minority and those are the ones that I see complaining the most about diving.
Frankly, it is now and it has been for a long time part of the game. And football is not alone in these dark arts (e.g. the amount of flopping in the NBA). There were 2 teams playing and the 'Caps is full with guys with the same cultural background as me who have learned from a young age that at that level if you get touched (or if you can sell to the ref that you were) inside the box you'd be naive not to fall. What you have to do after is BURY THE FRIGGING BALL.