Re: The "portuguese cheaters divers" old song


Moog wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:11:12 GMT, Elsa T. S. Vieira wrote in
rec.sport.soccer:

You misunderstand me. I don't claim we are the champions of
sportsmanship. I just think some people are making us the picture of
everything that's bad, as if everyone else were above any repproach.
What I think is that we aren't any worse than many other teams, as I
explained in the beggining of this thread.

It is wrong. Whoever does it. I don't think people are making you (the
portuguese) as a picture of everything that is bad at all. The problem is
that it happened in two of your high profile games.

Football simply cannot afford to ignore it any longer.

If it is any consolation, I am absolutely appalled by the state of
sportsmanship in the English Premiership (the league I watch). I want an
end to it full stop. I believe that footballers should concentrate on
using skill, tactics and positional ability to win games and not attempt
a "win at all costs, even by cheating" mentality.

There you go. I agree with you, it's not just the Portuguese.

Obviously, I am Portuguese, and therefore prejudiced, but...

I don't know how old everyone here is, but let me date myself by saying
that I profoundly hope we don't return to the bad old days of thuggish
football which the current problems seem to have replaced. And that I
find it remarkable how closely the teams complaining about diving align
with those that historically achieved some of their best results
through the enthusiastic application of shameless tactical
bone-breaking.

I think the split is simple: teams who have players with great
ball-handling skills seem to get consistently derided as "divers".
Teams who don't, seem to resent that they are not currently being
allowed to send these players home on a stretcher.

Of course, there is hopefully a middle ground. Holland, on one side,
has occasionally - though definitely not in this WC - shown that this
can be done, and France has been pretty great in their games this
fortnight.

.

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