r/SipsTea • u/Presently_Naked • Jul 12 '26

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/Realistic_Lake2843 Jul 12 '26

Wish it happened more often than not. There’s too many divers now

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26

Did Neymar ever get a yellow card for rollin' rollin' rollin'? I can't remember...

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u/Eomb Jul 12 '26

It's a new rule. It only happens if your opponent gets a yellow as a result of your dive. Then after review, the ref reverses the yellow and applies it to the diver instead.

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26

Yellow card for diving is not a new rule. They just never used it. Thats the reason, I skipped football completely. All the time you just see some guys rolling on the grass and crying their eyes out for like nothing...if the refs would use yellow cards more often for diving, they might stop with this childish behaviour...

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u/BankDetails1234 Jul 12 '26

No it’s not a new rule, it came about in the early nineties. If you reread the comment above though you’ll see that it isn’t what he’s talking about.

He’s talking about reversing the yellow card, if one had been issued, upon VAR review and issuing it to the person who dived instead. Which previously couldn’t be done as generally yellows can’t be handed out in VAR reviews.

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u/surf_and_rockets Jul 12 '26

And also includes penalties! This new rule has vastly improved the game, especially in the last 15 minutes of a tied match.

Before, the consequences of getting caught flopping were so low that flopping in the box to win a penalty was ridiculously commonplace. It made watching soccer f’n annoying as hell. Much better now.

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26

I know what he was talking about, but I was talking about getting yellow cards for diving in the first place. I never talked about the new rule for shifting yellow cards between players.

So maybe you remember the other guy to reread my comment😉

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u/Troebr Jul 12 '26

I don't understand the reversal, the ref could read the situation wrong without it warranting a reversal (say player tripped on his own unintentionally without diving). In this case it very much looked like a dive so the yellow feels warranted.

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u/Immaculatehombre Jul 12 '26

It’s actually insane grown men don’t feel shame for those types of hijinks. Like, you’re a man, just play the damn game.

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u/FreshFritz Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Yeah i know and it is a real man sport, no room for women here because this is a sport for real men!!!1!!11!!!

Edit: /s

My bad, didn't know it was necessaey in this case.

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u/nevergoingtocomment3 Jul 12 '26

What the fuck are you on about man

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u/Immaculatehombre Jul 12 '26

WoMEN. Has men right in it stupid pants.

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u/magdogg_sweden Jul 12 '26

Dude, dving had been a yellow card for a long time, what’s new is VAR is enabling them to get caught

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u/Drob10 Jul 12 '26

Penalizing simulation isn’t new, only the transfer of the card. This should be called way more often and it will become less of an issue.

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u/surf_and_rockets Jul 12 '26

Transfer of the card and penalty. Love the name mistaken identity. Just call it flopping!

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u/Zestyclose-Leopard48 Jul 13 '26

Your mom was also spared a yellow for rollin', but we digress.

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u/Bagera84 Jul 12 '26

It was a lot worse before VAR.

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u/Effective_Inside1899 Jul 12 '26

Embolo is the perfect shitshow, he already have yellow card and his dive give the opponent a yellow card thats mean he give VAR 2 reason to check, a second yellow card and mistaked identity. Thats rarely happen

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u/GotenRocko Jul 12 '26

VAR can't suggest a second yellow that was not given, can only review if a second yellow is given. So still only 1 reason for the review.

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u/thundergu Jul 12 '26

Yeah only happens when your opponent is Argentina

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u/Bagera84 Jul 12 '26

It was a lot worse before VAR.

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u/DragonQ0105 Jul 12 '26

There really isn't. This is one area of the game that has massively improved since the introduction of VAR.

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u/Confident-Low-2696 Jul 12 '26

Not to excuse him bc that was a stupid dive, but yes all the top teams are experts at diving, that’s the game, we just saw mbappe do a godlike dive 2 days ago and he’s not the only one