Faking it: Why football players feign injury

July 01, 2014 03:34

We all know that professional football players feign injury. Is it getting worse? Probably. Do we know why? Not really, but history suggests some plausible answers.

The first thing to say is that feigning injury in football today has reached truly epidemic proportions.

A Wall Street Journal article reported 132 minutes of writhing time in just 32 World Cup games. Of the 302 separate instances of players appearing to be very seriously hurt, 293 of them were up and playing within seconds. Just nine were actually injured.

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