Quote Originally Posted by BenFostersGloves View Post
No, he absolutely does. But I'd bet my house we've been done over more times by incompetent refs so F em. Karma.

I don't believe its cheating, or put it another way, cheating is too strong a word for it. Cheating for me is stuff like doping or the allegations of Ryan Reynolds paying refs off, the Italian bribe scandal etc.
If you want to call it cheating then every footballer is a cheat because given the chance they'll all take advantage of certain situations. Its just some do it more than others. Its just part of the game and some fans need to get over it.
There's a difference between what you call incompetence by refs and cheating by players though. It's all about intention. And much/most of the 'incompetence' is down to either human error or being conned by cheating players. If played didn't cheat, refs would be more competent.

Of course all players cheat, some much more than others though. One of our players cheats more than others according to some posters on here and it's regularly called out by them interestingly.