you're a rugby fan then chicog?

bloodgate was way, way more sinister and pre-planned than anything i've ever seen on a football pitch. i think there was a goalkeeper in spain or italy several years ago who hid a razor blade in his shinpad and slashed himself open to get an opponent sent off - that's in a completely different world to any gamesmanship and daft diving that goes on in football.

I see it as being the same as a player deliberately getting a booking so he can serve a ban in an inconsequential game.

It's all cheating, plain and simple.

Welcome to the 21st Century FIFA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21505488

This seems quite a good idea - about half way down the story. What do you think?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/01/robert-lewandowski-borussia-dortmund-contracts

Although a maximum of 2 years would be more ideal I think.

I love football, but I don't care about the purists. Bunch of old farts. Time for a football revolution.

- Get rid of offside. More goals, more fun.

- Don't let goalkeepers wear gloves and they can only stop the ball with their chest, bum or head.

- Don't protect goalkeepers, but let them wear a motorcycle helmet and extra padding if it makes them feel 'hard'.

- Use one ball in each half at the same time, different colours if that helps. Will keep bored fans at one end more interested in the game.

- Anyone who is responsible for breaking someone's leg must have his own leg broken by an appointed leg breaker on the opposite team.

- Players keep complaining about being tired. Make the pitch shorter and narrower, but make the goals twice as big and three times as high so that effort is not wasted on so many wayward shots by overpaid prima donnas.

- Use technology and social media to publicly humiliate players who cheat, castrate them, jail them for life and make them wear pink lipstick around the ring of their bum.

- Make the game metric. Reduce each team to 10 players.

- Ban any team with 'United' in their name from playing in the Premier League.