It seems that players are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Indeed, magnify this on a grander scale and in life people demand that others be more transparent, more honest, more open. We want our politicians to be open and honest, our police force, our teachers and our finance sector. We've had enough of the lies. Or have we?
For as soon as Luis Suarez opens his mouth and tells the biggest truth that there is in the game, that of players diving to get a competitive edge over their opponents, all hell breaks loose and Brendan Rodgers takes the politically correct position. Let's be totally serious here. Suarez is only saying, out loud, what all other Premier League footballers do every week up and down the country. This whole notion of players playing the game 100% within the rules is ludicrous.
Add to this the fact that players are almost certainly told to dive as a matter of course each and every game to get the advantage for the team and what you have is Rodgers coming across far too holier than thou. What Rodgers should have said is, yes Suarez has said this, yes he's entitled to his opinion, and yes all footballers go looking for that extra 1% to aide their side. The degrees of cheating and diving can be argued I'm sure. Some are just better at hiding it than others. But I find Rodgers' response to be totally pathetic.
What he should be saying is that in all probability managers up and down the land are blatantly instructing their players to bend the rules. Do you think Ferguson says to his team 'okay lads remember to stay on your feet, and for goodness sake Ruud don't go down in the area'? Does he fuck!
It seems that once again political correctness has gone utterly mad. So let's all go back to the clichéd after match interviews in which it was 'a game of two halves', 'the lads did good', and 'we gave 110%' and all that other shit.
Luis. I applaud you.
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