Commando comics<\/a><\/p>\nPlayer have always feigned injury but either this is a new development, the crowds at the World Cup can be very quiet at times or the pitchside microphones are far too sensitive.<\/p>\n
In all the times I’ve played football (long ago), I’ve done many things when fouled, including getting up to attack my assailant, feeling sorry for myself or maybe just rolling around in pain for a bit. I don’t recall ever feeling like I wanted to scream.
Diving is bad enough, but I wish you could be yellow-carded for wailing like a baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m concerned. There have been a couple of occasions since the start of the World Cup when a player has been tackled heavily (or hardly touched) and, in addition to flying several feet into the air, performing a double twist with pike and coming crashing to the ground in apparent agony, he has yelled out… Continue reading Aiiiyyyeeee!!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1004,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/23\/off-to-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":996,"position":0},"title":"Off to London","date":"June 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Once I've got tonight's on-call out of the way, I'm flying down to London in the morning for a weekend away with one of my mates, my other half and her sister. 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