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    Get up you cheating prick

    Bugger Fair Play, bugger it I say.

    Time to stop this stupid kicking the ball out if an opposition player goes down injured.

    It started well enough but now two things are happening:

    1 Obviously it is misused, with a player going down as if struck by lightning when the opposition is attacking, then howling for the ball to be put out. A miraculous recovery later they bound back on.

    2 The concept of giving the ball back is now being warped. The ball is not being kicked deep to an opposition player, but instead put into touch. This happened three times in the Champions League final (two Chelsea, one the other lot). Iraq did it yesterday and then closed down Australia for the throw in.

    If it is an injury let the ref decide - no blood or visible bone and I for one advocate letting the game flow. If feeling so inclined, proffer a quick kick or gentler pressure from studs to a soft fleshy part of the body to check for consciousness and on goes the game.

    #2
    Get up you cheating prick

    I can only agree. It's not players' responsibility to decide this.

    When you get an outraged John Terry trying to claim the gentlemanly high ground against Carlos Tevez in the Champions League final, you realise these fuckers (particularly at the higher levels) shouldn't be allowed to decide anything which involves morals or scruples. Ever.

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      #3
      Get up you cheating prick

      This became a significant point of discussion in the first half of the Serie A season (especially following a goal being scored while the defending team had a man on the ground), and the league introduced a guideline providing that teams should only be expected to put the ball into touch upon a signal from the referee or one of his assistants. While teams still put the ball into touch before the ref signals in the case of clear injuries, the idea (and the media attention) reduced the problem significantly in the second half of the season.

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        #4
        Get up you cheating prick

        If you kick the ball out because an opposition player is injured you would expect it back.

        If you kick it out because your own player is injured you have no right to expect it back. Unless 2 Arsenal players run into each other against Spurs

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