The Best Player in the World - The Cristiano Ronaldo Thread

Football is becoming a horrible sport with all the diving and cheating these days. Personally, i blame the refs for falling for players antics when they are slightly touched with a finger.

And i am not talking specifically about Ronaldo and shitpegi last night, i am talking about football in general. Hell, we have such players in our own ********ing team.

 

It's a part of the game and it always has been, just cause you see it in 10 replays nowadays, it doesn't mean it wasn't there before.

Refs make mistakes, and you can point your finger and say he's the one who made us lose, but in the end you'll see that there are things our squad could've and should've done better.

 

I'm not going to disagree. If you look at my posting history, I've said that I would go so far as to institute post match video reviews to punish diving. I hate it. My point was about this "North American fans think its a pussy sport" commentary. Give me a break. Like the opinions of North American fans should set the tone or something. Please.

 

Do. not. start.

 

I should correct what I posted last night about the 2 match ban precedent. It wasn't for a player putting his hands on another player's face, it was for the gesture Cristiano Ronaldo was doing as he walked off (slapping his own cheek and saying "caradura"). The ref did make a note of the gesture in his match report. Albelda and Feghouli received two match bans for similar actions. Now we wait.

The gesture and "caradura" are basically saying the ref has no shame or that he is ballsy (I don't think there is a good direct translation).

 

Isn't a straight red a two match ban regardless of the "extras" though?

 

A straight red is a one match ban. Anything more is due to the reason. In this case it will be atleast two.

 

From what I'm reading they could give him four matches matches (2 for the Gurpegi lovetap and 2 for the gesture)...I love you Ronnie but ya gotta do better

I did "lol" at this pic though:



Look at Angel in the background...

 

I think he'll get a 3 match ban.

 

I think he's getting at least two, on the bright side I guess between this and the injury no one can complain about him not getting any rest because he starting every game

 

Considering the context, one game ban should be enough.

 

Oh yeah, I can definitely get behind this. I could not care less what *insert any group of non-fans of the sport* thinks.

Don't think it was Herrera, but I still don't understand how the blatant shirt tug on Ronaldo in the first half (?) when Benz had the ball (and a good through ball would've put Cristiano through 1v1 with the gk) wasn't a yellow. That completely blew my mind.

 

^It actually was Herrera with the shirt pull.

The little bastard had the cheek to wave an imaginary card at the ref whenever he was fouled a couple of times.

 

Somewhere Dani Alves is noting the nuances of Gurpergi's dive to use in the future. That really was terrible, where have the ball busters (as @Alma Merengue called them) for Bilbao gone?'

 

i don;t get it. why ronaldo is protesting?? he saw handball or what?

 

There are several angels of this alleged "handball" there was none, Ronaldo would have liked a undeserved penalty it seems.

 

Or maybe he didn't see it clearly and thought it was a handball, after all it was a tense and dynamic game.

 

It looks like he was calling for a foul on Benzema as that was who he was trying to play in with the pass. When Ronaldo lobbies for a handball he usually grabs his hand to help the referee out, waving it in the air the way he was is generally for a foul or perceived foul as he thought Benz was obstructed.

 

Watch the US National team and you will know why we hate flopping. Americans don't flop like the Euros do.

You hardly see an American player fall to the ground. Being on the ground is a disadvantage. We were taught in school leagues to stay on your foot. We were never taught to fool refs.

 

Is that in all sports or just football?

 

We Americans are always in advantageous positions for success...in all sports and life in general. It's why we're so incredibly awesome.

 

It's not like an American to be so arrogant.

 

You're right, despite all our successes, in the midst of haters surrounding us, we're extremely humble.

 

I must have confused US with Barcelona.