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Originally Posted by DragoonKain3
I don't get it. What's this 'gentleman play' the ref and the dad of the Furuyas are talking about? I'm so confuzzled, considering I don't know football etiquette.
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This is a surprisingly subtle and difficult concept (well, not so much considering how much better this show is than you'd expect) and it isn't totally clear who's in the right here. Among adults the kind of stuff the ref is talking about would be flopping, excessive complaining and pleading for fouls and cards, etc. Among kids I think it boils down more to the fact that the ref was suggesting that the Furuyas were mocking their opponents with stuff like the own goal and Ouzou's giving up the ball just so they could steal it again and set up Erika's goal.
The most interesting thing for me was that the ref seemed to imply that Hanashima-san's teams had a reputation for this, and he seemed very troubled by it,