Friday WTF. Dive of the week.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

(From yesterday's Copa America quarter-final)...

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What a buncha wankers, eh?

Comments

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

That's such a sleazebag move. I hope they fire him off the national team.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

They may not. But his club will. And that's where he works for a living. Hopefully, it'll have some deterring effect to other such sleazebags.

Hit them where it hurts, i.e. their purses. That'll make an impact.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

Are there any consequences for this kind of sleaziness combined with the blatant dishonesty of pretending to fall?

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

There should be. Otherwise "fair play" isn't worth shit in this game. Apparently, there'll be "an inquiry" (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/gonzalo-jara-set-to-face-inquiry-for-hoppa-moment-20150625-ghy614.html). And the victim may be spared the suspension (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/06/24/edinson-cavani-had-good-reason-to-be-irate-over-chile-players-cheeky-move-and-flop/) that follows a red card. Where the culprit may really hurt is if the club he plays for, decides to get rid of him (http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/26/mainz-gonzalo-jara-edinson-cavani-bottom). We'll see what will happen.

Ironically, it was Uruguay who were famous for those sort of things, particularly their striker Suarez, who once deliberately stopped the ball with his hands just as the Ghanians were about to score into his team's goal. He was instantly sent off, but the Ghanians missed the penalty that they were awarded, and then Uruguay progressed to the next stage (World Cup semi-finals, I think). And last year, Suarez tried to bite a chunk of an Italian's shoulder off, and no one noticed. These guys are well known for their skills in subtle sleaziness.

After about four tries, I give up

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

I play the fucking game (albeit at a really low level), but I really don't get this at all. Can someone please explain the significance to this dumb Canuck?

To me, it looked like red 18 fingered blue 27's bum, sniffed his finger and fell down as if disgusted by the odour — a first-grader's joke, in other words.

Was he actually pretending that 27 had hit him? Is that why he fell? I didn't see any contact (besides the finger) at all.

[Edit: Nevermind, I just watched this link (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/gonzalo-jara-set-to-face-inquiry-for-hoppa-moment-20150625-ghy614.html), as provided by the Good abomvubuso. Wanker, indeed.

[oslo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree! A buncha wankers!