By Les Tan/Red Sports

The World Cup has some of the best professional football players in the world. It may be the beautiful game, but it has an ugly side to it, and now the whole world can see it.

Why FIFA does not clamp down on all the cheating and diving is beyond understanding, especially when you bring a rugby perspective to it.

Here are some ugly conclusions one can draw about footballers.

1. Footballers, unlike ruggers, are weak
What is wrong with some of these players? They collapse when barely touched. Are they so weak? Rugby players get tackled with the whole body and they just get on with it. You hardly see rugby players rolling around, writhing in pain like footballers.

If footballers are always bothered by so much pain and injury, perhaps FIFA can introduce a new rule — every time you go down in agony, you should be given a mandatory 5-minute rest on the sidelines to recover. I’m sure that would take ‘heal’ all the fake injuries immediately.

Footballers, from what we can see, are feeble. (See how Daniele De Rossi goes down so easily after getting clipped on his heels here)

2. Footballers, unlike ruggers, have no respect for the referee
You see footballers constantly arguing with the referee. I have never seen rugby players argue with the referee. Why do footballers do it? Where is the respect for the referee?

I think FIFA should make it mandatory that if players question a ruling, they should immediately get a card. After all, a referee is not supposed to change his mind regardless of what the players say, right? So why allow them to argue with the referees so aggressively without any consequence?

All this does is to teach millions of youngsters around the world that it is ok to argue with referees.

3. Footballers, unlike ruggers, have no respect for their opponent
Why do footballers constantly ask referees to give cards to their opponents? Where is the sportsmanship in that? Let the referee alone call it. Where is the honour of winning a game against a 9-man team because you have successfully managed to con the referee into sending two off?

4. Footballers, unlike ruggers, cheat blatantly
Did you see the red card that Kaka got in the game between Brazil and the Ivory Coast? Abdelkader Keita wasn’t looking and ran right into Kaka in an off-the-ball incident. Kaka pushed back with his right arm to protect himself and made contact with Keita’s chest. The Ivorian fell to the ground with great drama — clutching his FACE. (See the video here)

Last night, Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani fell in the penalty area, clutching his knee in ‘pain’, hoping to get a penalty against Ghana. The referee told him to get up. Instantly healed of his ‘pain’, Cavani stood up to scold the referee and the assistant linesman.

The worst case of cheating was Uruguay’s Luis Suarez deliberately handling the ball on the line to prevent Ghana from winning the quarter-final. Ghana got the penalty but Asamoah Gyan missed it. The game went into a penalty shootout and the Ghanians lost.

Not only should Suarez be sent off, the rules should allow the goal to stand.

Where is the justice?

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