I'm not entirely sure how the sim/match engine works but it seems fairly apparent that each player has an area of the pitch at any given time...
Reasonably often this seems to result in a neighboring player either staring at an open ball like a stunned mullet til an opposition player takes a ball he could clearly get to first or actually turning and running away from it. You get enough grief about the defective match engine so I wont waste my time asking you to fix it...but the graphical representation could be less infuriating...
Instead of standing there like a brain damage victim while not have the player whip a mobile phone from his shorts and take a call from his girlfriend? Instead of running away from it mindlessly why not have him run up to the crowd, pop a coke or munch a McDonalds hamburger? It would be equally useless but more understandable and to a degree less infuriating- perhaps you could even sell some product placement to hire people to actually write a proper match engine.