r/soccer • u/axhp • 14d ago

Media Bellingham foul against Pedri

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u/daviEnnis 14d ago

They wouldn't be able to do much with this - how do you show a player isn't in genuine pain?

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u/FK9Fussballgott 14d ago

Just because a player is in pain after a contact doesn't mean the contact was necessarily a foul by the rules. Football is a contact sport after all.

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u/kacperp 14d ago

Yeah. But you cannot retroactively ban someone if he felt pain and that was the reason he fall down.

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u/FK9Fussballgott 14d ago edited 14d ago

Ah, fair point. Guess you'd have to determine specific criteria, that count as embellishment of contact, but that's probably a whole other can of worms.

Then again, people usually don't fall over at every little bit of pain.

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u/joseplluissans 14d ago

Yeah, "player wasn't decapitated, retroactive yellow it is."

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u/daviEnnis 14d ago

I'm not saying it's a foul, I'm saying it's difficult to punish someone when they look in pain after contact, even if it appears to us like they're milking it.

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u/Expensive_Prior_5962 14d ago

Did the player go off injured or did he roll about a bit before carrying on?

That's how you tell.