After my first experience of watching soccer, I often question why grown men fall into the ground as if they were three years old and being told no. Even then, three-year-olds seem much more well-mannered. I have realized that I am not the only one troubled with this question. David Papineau, the author of the New York Times article “Yes, the Players in the World Cup, Do Keep Falling Over for No Reason” also questions soccer players. Detailing if it’s difficult to depict the difference if someone is true, the injured. Papineau’s explanation with evidence shows credibility. Having a background in “Philosophy of science at King’s College, London”. Where she worked on his recent work that had a background in sports, according to the article.

While focusing on the aspects of the soccer players losing self dignity, and giving shared past World Cup games, or even individual players themselves, the audience or readers say that watching soccer will have a better understanding that this falling happens more than anticipated. A prime example is in the fifth paragraph in the article it shows Denzel Dumfries was on the floor for about 20 seconds waiting for a penalty to be caught. The car wasn’t made and he got up like nothing had happened while jogging back into the game. If someone who’s never seen a soccer game would first think that the soccer player is truly hurt. But if a person is familiar with these incidents, those who watch soccer often will comprehend. Making soccer fans gravitate towards this article.

The author includes bias with the article. He makes it clear what his opinion of. Why do they do this and his perspective on the world cup itself the tone of this piece is both argumentative and informative. It’s informative because the article explains that well-known players, Ronaldo and Luis Suarez have had a history of flopping to get a foul. When giving his “perspectives on the World Cup“ he shares his thoughts of what could have been done better in past games. David is informing others who came across this article and this is the purpose of this piece. The initial title confirms this fact.

Taking into account that this news article is included in the New York Times. Although this is a printed version, it still shows the reason that the genre is a news article because it states before the article begins “to sign up for opinion today’s newsletters.” This is being featured online and is used as a form of communication with a feasible time spent included that is seen online.

The article is related to real world things from today as the World Cup is happening in Qatar. The semi finals are today between Croatian and Argentina, the timeliness of this piece. Is up-to-date with world timely events.

Having this article written in London, having an interesting point of view. We see in the first picture of the article stating “London”. 

Overall, this article was eye-opening even though I knew some of the aspects of this happening in soccer and seen  through the author’s stance.