Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
Good one! It seems to be part of the game nowadays, but I dread the day we employ a specialist 'diving coach'. All teams (us included) seem to try and con the ref, but Stockport were a bit worse than most. Quigley seemed a master of the dark arts, but their no. 27 Crankshaw was probably the main offender. He went down theatrically at the slightest touch, but the ref did ok at spotting it for the most part. A term I loathe is 'game management', because basically it's all about time wasting and cheating. Maybe it's an age thing and diving and cheating is now seen as part of the game. I just can't imagine Brian Stubbs feigning injury, even if someone hurt him the last thing he would do is to go down injured, he would just play on and remember it for his next tackle!
Lincoln were well practised in the art of feigning injuries, so the rest of the team could go and get instructions off the Cowleys