With the Rugby World Cup nearly here, the excitement is overwhelming as it is sure to bring crunching tackles, ferocious runs and powerful scrummages.
The stars of rugby are some tough lads and don’t take any nonsense, so the diving, faking of injury and over reactions in football would never be seen on a rugby pitch.
But if the stars of football played in the tournament, how would they do? Well some would get by, but we are going to take a look at the most pathetic footballers who wouldn’t last five minutes.
These are the players that care more about how they look than how they play, do ridiculous dives and shouldn’t be aloud to call themselves footballers.
These are the wimps of the football world…
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David Luiz- PSG
This man is in here for one piece of complete stupidity on his part, which happened when he was at Chelsea.
It was the final minute of a tense clash against Man United, Luiz and his team were 1-0 up, so all they had to do was hold on for the victory without any drama. But instead the Brazilian defender committed a the most ridiculous dive.
Not only was he at his own corner flag with no reason to dive what so ever, but after the centre back comically jumped to the ground he then faced the camera and laughed.
This display of as much arrogance still angers many today and lots feel he wasn’t punished as he should have been.
The school boy smug behaviour would be punished considerably in the world of rugby and many referees from the game do not like to be messed with, as current football players tend to surround officials.
As this clip below shows, rugby is nothing like football and clearly David Luiz needs a telling off from a rugby ref.
Adryan Oliveira Tavares- Leeds United
Another Brazilian, this time because of his unnecessary over reaction to a tackle.
The midfielder had already rounded his opponent, so the 21-year-old had won the foul fair and square, but when you dramatically role over twice and then get up only to dive through the air theatrically when you don’t even have an injury then you’re taking it a bit far.
Adryan was rewarded for this by being voted the winner of the 2014 Fallon d’Floor award for the most theatrical dive of the year by users of Reddit.
Whereas rugby players take it like a man, as Rory Best did when he played on after breaking his arm in a match against New Zealand. I wonder how Adryan or, in fact, any football player would react to breaking their arm.
Luis Suárez- Barcelona
This Uruguayan mad man could be on here for so many reasons such as diving, racism and deliberate handball, but he is actually on here for his horrendous habit of biting opponents.
The forwards worst bite (he did it three times!) was his last one because of the stupidity of its occurrence. After already doing it twice before and been penalised most people had thought he had learnt his lesson but instead he did it a third time on the biggest stage of international football, the World Cup.
The habit has been described by many as disgusting, but it has also been explained as a feeble attempt to fight or let out his frustration but in rugby that would be laughed at.
As the video below shows, in rugby if you get angry you have to fight like a man.
Cristiano Ronaldo- Real Madrid
The Portugal international may be one of the best players in the world but he is also a big diver. Throughout his career he has had moments of madness where he has theatrically thrown himself to the ground after minimal contact, and especially at Man United where he picked up a bunch of yellow cards as well as winning lots of fouls unfairly.
The shameful behaviour is accompanied by critics saying he cares too much about how he looks, with former manager Jose Mourinho stating he spends too long in front of the mirror.
Ronaldo is one of the world’s best in football but this clip shows the world’s toughest from rugby and if the forward was on the wrong end of one of these tackles then he wouldn’t have a chance to dive.
Eden Hazard- Chelsea
The winger is not just on here because of his small size which would get him destroyed on a rugby pitch but because of who he picks a fight with.
It was the 23 January 2013 and Chelsea were trailing Swansea in the FA cup when a ball boy held on to the ball in an attempt to time waste so Hazard walked over to the young lad and kicked him.
The Belgian is very fast but that would not save him for long on a rugby pitch as this clip shows (below).
After picking on a boy from Swansea the Welsh rugby players would be quick to get him back and show him how rugby players tackle as all these footballers should experience.
