Pearce sending off

[harbertongull]

Ok Pearce went off against Mansfield for a second bookable offence. Alan Knill says no complaint but sorry there was no doubt what so ever that their No 11 Cluecas dived more convincingly than one of Her Majesties submarines on manoeuvres! What's up with the modern game when professional ffootballers want to go down with such ease and get their fellow pros booked or sent off? Stephen Gerrard proved foe England the other night that if you stay on your feet in the box you may actually get a goal! No I thought Perace was hard done by and Cluecas should have beeh bookedvfor diving!

[Dave]

To be honest thought Pearce pulled the lad back whether he stayed on his feet or not, remember Benyon back in our conference days being fouled in the box staying on his feet and not getting the penalty, and that's the problem player honesty doesn't always pay.

[ferrarilover]

Nope, Pearce pulled him back and the bloke went down. Y4 will be along in a minute to explain using the correct language that the offence is made out if A "impedes or attempts to impede" (similar to "trips or attempts to trip") B, an opponent. Knowing he was on a booking, that there were covering defenders and he was 40+ yards from goal, Pearce was bloody stupid to do what he did and he got everything he deserved. Just a shame that it cost 2100 supporters and 10 other players plus countless others two points.

Matt.

[Bobbytanz]

I thought the first yellow card he received was harsh and don't forget it was due to bad pass from our club captain that lead him to being put on the back foot !!

[ferrarilover]

That's as may be, but to do what he did in the circumstances in which he found himself was very silly. Not excusing the pass, but it could have been dealt with much better.

Matt.

[ROADRUNNER]

the game is now full of nancy boys who fall over and roll around and try to get players sent off, a sad fact of the game these days and life in general, sadly the football authorities have taken the contact out of the sport and are ruining it for the spectators, the fact is that if tommy smith and norman hunters of this world were playing they would be spending most weeks sat in the stands.
the game for me is going in the wrong direction at a great rate of speed and is boring to watch and i dont just mean at this level, the premiership is probably worse still for diving and rolling around.

[harbertongull]

Thank you roadrunner you've summed it up perfectly for me. These things happen in a split second and I've not seen any tv coverage. Whether Pearce committed a foul or not Cluecas dived and got Pearce booked and sent off. We seem to readily accept this as part of the modern game. Why don't refs see through this more? The premier league prima donnas started aĺl this nonsense. I'm not a fan of rugby but I believe Football has a lot to learn from it with regard to respect of fellow players and refereeing.