Footballers, man up.

Football (or soccer if you're American) is a game which undoubtedly requires skill. To whinge like a toddler when the referee gives a decision you don't happen to agree with however, is just pathetic. Manchester United players surrounded the referee during a recent game against Real Madrid (which they lost) because he sent off a player for an offence which you can be sent off for. Once a referee has made a decision they will stick to it, no matter how much you crowd around him and argue with him. Man up and get on with the game. 

Footballers don't just act like a babies when they don't get their own way, they also roll on the floor in agony if somebody as much as touches them. I can only presume that shin-pads are made from paper and don't actually provide any protection whatsoever. If you've been fouled, or just touched, don't throw yourself on the floor then roll around clutching a random body part like you've been shot with a sniper rifle. Do they not realise that they are paid obscene amounts of money by thousands of fans to play football, not pretend they're injured. Amateur players have to pay to play the game they love and if you get injured as an amateur you don't get journalists asking after you or a full team of doctors and physiotherapists helping you regain fitness. 

Even when players are genuinely injured they're treated like they're made of glass. Frequently players are stretchered off when there is nothing wrong with their legs or their heads. Former Manchester City player Bert Trautmann broke his neck during a game but still carried on playing and didn't even go to hospital until the following day. That was in the 1950's. Footballers now are soft. Maybe they're not entirely to blame. They are treated like gods by millions and are paid more money than they know what to do with; it'd be hard not to let that affect you. But look at sports like rugby league. In the 2012 Grand Final Leeds Rhinos player Kevin Sinfield played the full 80 minutes, most of  them with concussion and won Man of the Match. In the same game Warrington Wolves player Paul Wood ruptured a testicle, which later had to be removed, but did he roll about on the floor and cry and moan and whinge like a baby to the referee? No, he played on. 

Footballers, man up.