Is football becoming a non contact sport?

[chrisfffan]

What does everyone think about the resent dives in the champions league? In the Man United v Celtic game Ryan Giggs defiantly dived as did Fabragas against Berlin and maybe even Drogba did for Chelsea against Werder Bremen I was there but I couldn’t see it where I was and I didn’t see match of the day! anyway do you think it’s a good thing we are copying the rest of the European teams and gaining an advantage by coning the ref like they do? or do you think its destroying football?

[The Unknown Guru]

It's kind of not supposed to be a contact sport in the first place. Paying off refs is bad, too, if that's what "coning" refers to (sorry, I'm no Englander). I still think the Seahawks shoulda won the last Super Bowl.

[Heath]

I don't like diving at all, I think it's a low way to play football. I'm sure players in teams that I support have dived, likewise I'm sure their opponents have too. But when it gets to diving being a key strategy to win a match I think it does little but harm the game.

Oh yeah, I'm still annoyed about how Australia got knocked out the World Cup.

[chrisfffan]

yea that was never a penalty! and I think if you take away tackling from football theirs no point playing it I know somebody said its not a contact sport but your wrong try telling John Terry that! at the world cup the refs were mad if u slid along the ground to get the ball it was a free kick straight away even if it was a perfect challenge