Beckenbauer speaking sense as usual

From bbc.co.uk

Should strike a chord with most people on here. He's well-placed to judge for sure.

...Meanwhile, Germany World Cup-winning captain and coach Franz Beckenbauer has asked for there to be a crackdown on divers and cheaters.

"The players are looking for an advantage and they attempt to exploit the situation," said the head of Germany's 2006 organising committee.

"At the beginning of the tournament, I felt the referees were showing yellow cards too early for trivial offences but the players make it much harder by simulating, and by staying lying on the ground to interrupt play," he said.

"Perhaps everyone - players, referees and administrators can get around a table after this to come up with a solution to put an end to this kind of unfortunate incidents.

Beckenbauer also wants any player cautioned who tries to get another player booked or sent off by waving an imaginary card at a match official.

"This is unsporting and unfair," said Beckenbauer.

"I think that whoever asks a referee to give a yellow or red card to another player should get the card himself."

Originally posted by sasquatch672
Beckenbauer's right, and he almost - but not quite - admits his own role in the fiasco. What he forgot when he briefed the referees before the tournament is that the players expect some sort of contact, that the fans came to see games played and finished with twenty-two players, and that red cards in the World Cup are a draconian punishment for which a ...[text shortened]... art responsible for this mess and he should get out of the way and let others fix it.

Originally posted by Palynka
Five match bans!! LOL!!! 🙄

Originally posted by sasquatch672
I know you're used to watching teams full of cowards who want to prance around the field like ballerinas and under their $150,000 a week by falling down when someone breathes on them, but I assure you, it's not the norm in the rest of the world.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
You're a very tiresome man.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
I've more than had enough. This idiot won't leave me alone.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
You're on my ignore list now. Go sit in the corner.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
... as am I, by answering you. Moron.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
I acknowledge that I have a role in this thing between you and me. But you're taking it too far. You're cluttering up the forums, and I have a bit as well. I apologize to the readers here who've become irritated by this sideshow. But you're following me all over the forums and making this less interesting, as am I, by answering you. Moron.