The Fan

Ferguson says rules encourage cheating

Tue, March 28th 2006

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson believes football’s rules are loaded in favour of divers (BBC).

 

FIFA introduced rules to punish ‘professional’ fouls with a red card to introduce more exciting games (ie, more goals), but surely diving to gain penalties and to get opposition defenders sent-off is a worse offence.

Which is the more ‘professional’ foul - a defender who mistimes a last gasp tackle, or the attacker who dives to gain a goal scoring chance or to give his team a one-man advantage?

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