I was agreeing with you in that it's ridiculous when people excuse terrible fouls because a player was doing a few tricks or skills. I brought up the Ramos kick on Messi because everyone would condemn that, but people won't do the same when it happens to Neymar because they don't like him
Since I posted a first post about this, once again: Messi and Neymar played at Barca.
They both have awesome skills.
Messi is even better.
Yet, no one (or rare) guys are kicking Messi.
Yet, everyone is kicking Neymar.
So, my point was that they are NOT kicking him due to skills.
But because of a personal 1 vs 1 behavior/attitude/provoking.
Again, this video has very LITTLE with to do his footballing skills and shows WHY everyone is fighting with him.
For me, he is a tier 1 of the most annoying top footballers, and the most hated ones, together with Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Muller.
On the other hand, Ronaldinho was dribbling all the time.
Why the opponents didn't hate and kick him?
= because he had a likeable personality, he wasn't getting into fights and he was not disrespectful in any way.
On the other hand, then you have Neymar, fighting with 3 defenders, a ref, 1 fan and at least 1 teammate on almost every single match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyjDMhluoPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1SK5D7qF0