Empathy

comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 1 minute ago
There wasn't a foul, there were plenty of players around the incident as it happened, the Chelsea players hounded the ref as soon as it happened wanting a red, Oscar went down as if he'd been shot, there was no blood or open wound so I don't see why the Chelsea players had to overreact the way they did.

Usually when a man is on the floor in pain your players will see how you are, assess that there is clearly no serious injury and give him a pat on the back. The way the Cheslea players were giving 'hurry up' signals is what you would see if the players had witnessed something truly horrific, they didn't, Oscar was just rolling around.

The whole thing just stunk of Chelsea doing everything they could to get a man sent off and it worked.
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As stated above the Ref had his card out before any Chelsea player got anywhere near him.

The card was shown before the Chelsea players were calling for the physio.

If a team mate goes down screaming holding his ankle you want quick action.

You do also realise that broken legs do not involve either blood or an open wound dont you??

It's a hard game for a ref given the behaviour of the players on the field.

Costa is a red card waiting to happen "but he's picked on?"

Sideshow bob pretending he'd been head butted was despicable even if it was to Costa.

How the ref thought is irrelevant, the actions of the Chelsea players was unsportman.

Did his leg look broken? No. You're making excuses for Chelsea's unnecessary actions over the whole incident.

"I don't think he was suggesting that his side didn't do it... But they HAD to do because it is part of the European game"

And that's what I found hypocritical. Mourinho himself employs those tactics even when he doesn't have to.

Not all leg breaks look like Eduardo's or Ramsey's and you can get things like muscle tears or snapped tendons which are just as painful and wouldnt show

Did his leg look broken?
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this comment tells me 100% you have never seen someone break their leg playing football.

What do you expect to see, the leg hanging off on a thread, right angle breaks?

Oscar's acting was pathetic, but I dont need to excuse his team mates being concerned he is injured.

No one is trying to excuse Oscar but it really is going a long way to accuse the team mates of being able to quickly discern he isnt actually injured and go along wiht it anyway. Makes far more sense to assume they thought he was

I have actually, 3 times, twice it looked broken and we hurried people on to help, the other time it didn't so we just stood around him for a bit, he wasn't even crying or in that much agony, so why would we do what Chelsea players did as there was no way of seeing the seriousness of the injury.

The Chelsea players saw nothing bad as nothing happened so their reaction was way over the top.

On one of the occasion we all started cracking up because our guy seemed to have been given so much laughing gas he was in hysterics and talking about pretty flowers.

The sport has become so ferociously competitive that the will to win has surpassed any duty to play the game in a fair way.

You can say that when more foreign players came in to the Premier League, we saw the introduction of dives and feigning injury, and that culture has quickly spread amongst the players in the Premier League.

Ultimately, the managers have a duty to make sure their players are behaving in the correct method.

I don't think Oscar was necessarily feigning injury in order to get Ibra sent off. I think it's possible that Oscar realised that his own tackle was very poor and pretended to be injured in order to avoid getting into trouble with the refr.

As for the Chelsea players, it's not the first time they've surrounded a referee but in this instance, it made no difference as he'd already made up his mind to send Ibra off