The really sickening thing is some of these foreign players, they have play acting down to a fine art.
It's like they go out of their way to meticulously practice it in their own time, like a world renowned actor honing his performance.
A few times tonight england players went down when there was contact and the ref was having none of it, yet when the same happened with uruguay he couldn't put the whistle to his face quick enough, they dived at the perfect time and angle, the faux scream of pain then withering on the floor. Even if we tryed to start play acting we couldn't pull it off.
When sturridge was blocked off in the first half he should have been screaming and rolling on the floor in agony. An arm was raised in the vacinity of his head. That can get people straight reds let alone a second yellow. The england players should have been surrounding the ref agressively appealing, pointing out he's already had a yellow and pretending to tend to a stricken sturridge.
Roy hodgson and gary neville should have been in the fourth officials face, making him cower and back away.
We always get screwed to a certain extent by refs at major tournaments bu we kind of let it happen. We bend over and take our medicine.
