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Originally Posted by Tio
Do you think the player laying on the ground grabbing his head is a symptom of flopping?
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1- At no point during the video is the player grabbing his head.
2 - I've reffed enough soccer kids to appreciate a full sell job as opposed to a momentary one.
3 - The way he falls (back and legs first, followed by head directly backwards) after a shot to the upper torso and head from the side doesn't align enough for me to believe he was being knocked off his spot as much as he was bailing out away from the contact.
But as i said I'm not there in real life and am unable to see how much contact is occuring before he falls back so from this vantage point I've got an offensive foul.