In every sport there's some unwritten laws. Cricket has the "spirit of the game", rugby has moaning about how players will never dive like in football and football has stopping when someone is injured, right?
There's always a lot of confusion about when a game should be stopped by either a referee or one of the teams when it comes to someone being down injured.
Of course in England it's generally pretty simple, the ref only has to stop the match if it's a head injury or very serious and the opposition doesn't need to put the ball out either.
That said it never works like that and everyone's always far too polite to carry on playing with someone down injured.
That's obviously why Ajax's Joel Veltman decided to stop playing with his colleague down, or at least until he decided that the opposition defender was stopping anyway:
That's either the most heinous act of unsportsmanlike behaviour ever seen on a football pitch or properly one of the best things you're likely to see.
I'm veering towards the latter just because of the audacity to pull that off.
It proves why unwritten laws are so ridiculous, if it's not written down properly it's not a law and then you just carry on playing!
Of course the most infamous time that the unwritten law wasn't abided by was in 1999 in the FA Cup match between Arsenal and Sheffield United:
The match had to be replayed with the result of the original called null and void!
What's your take on Veltman's behaviour?
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