Any delay in treatment and indifference of some players to the injury has a root cause in so many feigned injuries. Not clips or going over easy but when players behave like they have a serious injury only to be trotting around minutes later with the odd mini limp just in case people think they were exaggerating. It's a scourge in the game and while things have been done to reduce the tendency eg having to go off if treatment is needed on the pitch and wait to be called back on, it doesnt really stop players react excessively to get another player carded. In bigger leagues with the amount of footage that can be analysed, retrospective bans should be considered for play acting - mainly due to the potential for delays in treatment for serious injuries as people take a moment to decide what course of action is actually needed. I think generally the reaction of players is the 1st indication of the more serious incidents but Ive always felt that players should have a duty f care to each other not to cry wolf. Convulsions in general will be distressing but after a clear head injury it is upsetting too.
Seems that what ever was said to the ref was was poorly timed and lacked some insight to the severity of the reason for the delay more than much being wrong with what was actually said. Probably asking for time added on or wh a decision went a particular way rather than being focused on the wellbeing of a fellow footballer in that moment. Which Id have thought the serious injury would have been copped pretty quickly by lads on the pitch?
