Quote Originally Posted by Jetmaster View Post
You can see what damage that does to the A-League in terms of the mainstream.

Last night I watched Back Page on Fox....they showed the Jets goals and mentioned the game for about 30 seconds (nothing about crowd, or atmosphere or much else).

Showed the Buijs incident then went on for about 3 minutes showing clips of "sockah players" rolling on the ground.
Its pretty hard to draw an arbitrary line and decide what crosses it - but there's got to be a point where ridiculous and comical overacting is grounds for bringing the game into disrepute - especially here in Aus where one of the biggest complaints against the game from outsiders is that players are soft, the game is soft and everyone dives and pretends to be hurt. Giving these idiots 10 second clips to look at and use as ammunition is, as you said, damaging our game's reputation.