Best dives ever.
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The 2 against Argentina were pretty handy.
Shearer nailed it on MOTD there about the pen today, Keepers are asking for it when they go flying in like that miles away from the ball, in the past regardless if it was or wasn't a penalty Suarez would of used theatrics there and not got given it, that was the perfect way to go down there from him today, just clever play by him, i would of been pissed off if he hadn't gone down.
Diving is all a bit meh, as long as it doesn't cost us fuck it, it would be so easy to get rid of most of it with retrospective bans but that doesn't look like it will happen any time soon, all you need is a panel of 4/5 ex pros to sort it out, then start throwing the bans out.
I dived once in a Sunday League match with the score 2-2 with 5/6 minutes left, it was one of those games where it was pissing down playing in terrible conditions.
Got passed the ball to left hand side of 18 yard box, controlled, saw the defender coming for a sliding tackle a mile off so just toed it past him and fell over him, nothing fancy, just fell, ref gave the penalty and we won 3-2, we won the league by a point that season with the last kick (header) of the last game, Aguero style, good days, bout 13 years ago that.
Got passed the ball to left hand side of 18 yard box, controlled, saw the defender coming for a sliding tackle a mile off so just toed it past him and fell over him, nothing fancy, just fell, ref gave the penalty and we won 3-2, we won the league by a point that season with the last kick (header) of the last game, Aguero style, good days, bout 13 years ago that.
Everyone thinks that Gattuso's MONSTER tug of his shirt was reason to drop the way he did ... I always thought it was a dive, and a fucking great one at that.
Which incident are you referring to? Suarez wasnt a dive. You can see Guzan making contact with him.
If he went down without contact - dive.
But as long as he reaches the ball before the keeper and goes down by contact its very clever play by Suarez.
Not diving. Its a big difference imho.
Young dives. This wasnt. Fowler, Lineker and Shearer said the same thing.
If he went down without contact - dive.
But as long as he reaches the ball before the keeper and goes down by contact its very clever play by Suarez.
Not diving. Its a big difference imho.
Young dives. This wasnt. Fowler, Lineker and Shearer said the same thing.
People see that differently though. I don't know why but it's considered more manly or something to kick someone on purpose.
Yup. Cheating is cool as long as you cheat like a man and not some foreign ponce.
Look at John Terry, he made a name for himself being the "no guts, no glory" type. Even though he is just a dirty bastard.
Interesting to hear that MOTD had a poll on the Suarez incident. Don't seem to remember them having that for any other player...
Of course lets also forget the fact that Suarez had been kicked shitless for the last month by so called English style CBs without complaint and indeed with little punishment for the kickers.
But yeah let's focus on the time he may have done something wrong. It's laughable it really is.
Of course lets also forget the fact that Suarez had been kicked shitless for the last month by so called English style CBs without complaint and indeed with little punishment for the kickers.
But yeah let's focus on the time he may have done something wrong. It's laughable it really is.
He didn't dive imo. Not in a way to cheat anyway. He may have just about avoided proper contact but had he not do that he'd have gone flying over the keeper & possibly injured either of them.
It was a definite penalty regardless.
It was a definite penalty regardless.
Any pundit who says a player 'went down too easily' should have a bucket of fish guts poured over his head. A player either should have gone down or shouldn't have gone down. You don't go down 'too easily,' any more than you go down 'too difficultly.' Some legitimate pens are very clear cut, others aren't. The latter are just slight, not wrong. You don't mind when it's your team, you hate it when it's the other team, but that's a subjective issue. Whenever a keeper goes out and makes contact, however faint, with a player moving at speed, it's a pen.
When he was flattened by an elbow to the side of his head yesterday, the commentator suggested that his reputation went against him for not even getting a freekick
Lineker against Cameroon 1990
The biggest controversy in that game shouldn't be the penalty but Bacuna's blatant play-acting to try and get Sturridge dismissed. Sturridge was rash with that swing and could've been gotten intro trouble for it, but Bacuna went down clutching his face. Disgraceful.
Bacuna is not a big enough name for a controversy.
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