The Feigning injury thing is a tough one for me.... take Toby king at Wembley for example.
He kops a high Wide and Handsome Shot right on the bridge of the Nose and the ref waves play on.... back in the day if that happened yes you'd get frustrated but it set a marker for the game, you'd point at the bloke who did it and tell him he was going to get one back but he'd have to guess when it was coming....
You would bide your time and hit him with a beauty of your own...or if you couldn't get one in, you'd wait until it kicked off and make sure you were first in with a few windmills and evened up the score and then some....
That opportunity is taken away from a player now, as he'd get 3 or 4 games for illegal contact and more for repeated punching if it got to that...
So you have to do the next best thing and embarrass the Ref, Stay down let the whole world see he's missed the most obvious high tackle since Adrian Morley's and wait for him to be told in his earpiece he's a ref and to give a penalty...
bring back some biff and we get back to an hour and a half a few minutes of injury time....
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