While acting up is a problem in professional football, anyone who actually believes these players fall like flies at the smallest hint of contact have so obviously never seen a match up close, much less played football at even the junior level. Football can be a pretty brutal contact sport.
There are very well defined rules for how you can tackle someone, but those rules allow that 90 kg player can basically mow you down at 25 km/h as long as they do it right. If you’ve ever looked closely at how these players fight for the ball (or played at a decent junior level or higher), you’ll notice that most adults would quite simply be knocked to the pitch and more or less kept there if they ever tried beating a high level player to the ball.
I guess it’s just when they suddenly pull themselves away from the pearly gates once the referee decides that he’s not having it, and God decides to personally intervene and restore their souls back to them.
The whiplash from the sudden recovery can be jarring
Thinking about it, adrenaline is probably a biiiig factor at play. People can show the same behaviour after car crashes just due to FOF instincts + adrenaline overflow
Not saying theatre doesn’t happen, but it’s probably mucg more nuanced than it seems, almost everything is after all
No. It’s that you’re rewarded for playing it up. If there’s a higher chance of getting a call, and no way to really stop it from happening, why would you not overplay every minor event? Especially at the higher tiers where skill gaps aren’t so noticeable.
As an athlete, not at a super high level, you function on such adrenaline so consistently, you know exactly what you’re doing. Especially if it isn’t a muscle memory response. Even during a trauma response when I broke my arm in multiple places.
Sure, some “flopping” might be trying to regain balance, but, I promise elite athletes know exactly what they’re doing.
While acting up is a problem in professional football, anyone who actually believes these players fall like flies at the smallest hint of contact have so obviously never seen a match up close, much less played football at even the junior level. Football can be a pretty brutal contact sport.
There are very well defined rules for how you can tackle someone, but those rules allow that 90 kg player can basically mow you down at 25 km/h as long as they do it right. If you’ve ever looked closely at how these players fight for the ball (or played at a decent junior level or higher), you’ll notice that most adults would quite simply be knocked to the pitch and more or less kept there if they ever tried beating a high level player to the ball.
I guess it’s just when they suddenly pull themselves away from the pearly gates once the referee decides that he’s not having it, and God decides to personally intervene and restore their souls back to them.
The whiplash from the sudden recovery can be jarring
Thinking about it, adrenaline is probably a biiiig factor at play. People can show the same behaviour after car crashes just due to FOF instincts + adrenaline overflow
Not saying theatre doesn’t happen, but it’s probably mucg more nuanced than it seems, almost everything is after all
No. It’s that you’re rewarded for playing it up. If there’s a higher chance of getting a call, and no way to really stop it from happening, why would you not overplay every minor event? Especially at the higher tiers where skill gaps aren’t so noticeable.
It happens in every sport.
Here’s a compilation of American manly men being manly in our superior masculine sport
Again, not saying it doesn’t happen, i would juat imagine some of the behaviour could be accounted for by adrenaline response, it’s a crazy drug man
As an athlete, not at a super high level, you function on such adrenaline so consistently, you know exactly what you’re doing. Especially if it isn’t a muscle memory response. Even during a trauma response when I broke my arm in multiple places.
Sure, some “flopping” might be trying to regain balance, but, I promise elite athletes know exactly what they’re doing.
That makes sense, i jog regularly but would never call myself an athlete. Apreciate the perspective 🌸