It wouldn't make it natural it would make it extremely common, the line being everyone is at it.

The stakes are so big the margins so fine, hence the exaggerations in 99% of falls.

Welbeck has barely dived
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I smell hypocrisy! You're defending a diver, yet call the likes of Gerrard divers

Fair enough, I only pointed to Arsenal as their squad looks so incredibly thin it's difficult to see how they can get 4th! City's mostly has been localised to defence, which they're unfortunately recovering from just before the derby

I was defending Welbeck, who has dived, which I acknowledged, but I have also said he has cut it out of his game.

I also said Gerrard was a diver, but he has also cut it out of his game. I do not see the hypocrisy there...

Blackbeards Delight
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Stop going on as if you're stating facts
You don't know, and the 99.9% you quoted is nonsense, you clearly don't know.

Kemlyn, why did you ignore the other part of my post where I said Young brings the reputation of the club down,
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I didn't, but you qualified it by saying it would reduce your options. So it's not a moral issue, is it? You only want rid of him when you have a better option in place, so it's a question of the ends justifying the means.

Not ideal, but you'll tolerate it until you have a better option in place. Relativism.

Fair enough, I only pointed to Arsenal as their squad looks so incredibly thin it's difficult to see how they can get 4th!
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Which part of our squad is thin?

Fabianski, Vermaelen, Monreal, Frimpong, Ryo, Gnabry, Akpom

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That was your bench at the weekend. It hardly screams quality...

I would rather him be gone, but at the same time, I'm willing to put up with him, because him not being there would be detrimental to the squad. I'd sooner not let my dislike of a player affect the club (if it were my choice to drop/sell Young)

hence the exaggerations in 99% of falls.
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Though the falls aren't quite as exaggerated as that stat.

That was your bench at the weekend. It hardly screams quality...
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Aye, but you can't plan for the amount of injuries we have at the minute.

If you look at our actual squad depth, it's fairly decent. Only risk area is Striker, but even there we have Giroud backed up by Walcott who done reasonably well there last season, and then Podolski, and then any of Sanogo/Bendter/Akpom behind him.

I'd say we are comfier upfront that Chelsea, easily.

That's what I meant when I said thin, and injury crisis Chris That's why you look thin.

I stand by you struggling to get 4th though, unless you start getting players back relatively soon, I think it'll catch up to you.

Has anyone commented on the incorrect spelling of coutinho yet?

I stand by you struggling to get 4th though, unless you start getting players back relatively soon, I think it'll catch up to you.
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Many people said the same last year.

And the year before.

And the year before

And the year before.

Starting to sense a pattern here............

Ha Kremlin possibly not as high as that I have no official data. That said, every game I see even my own team, when they go down its just not natural or what would happen in the real world.

I play regular and get all sorts of challenges, I'm hardly big but fast and get hacked but rarely ever fall if I do its never like you see in the pro leagues

True enough Chris It's also said every year that if Wenger manages top 4 it'll be his best achievement. I think if he beats this Spurs side & Liverpool to 4th, it'll should rank up there!

Nah, expect better this season.

73 points last year.

Add in :

Ramsey finally playing his best.

Wilshere getting back to his best.

Giroud actually looking like a footballer.

Flamini

Ozil.

Gotta be 80 points + ?

How anyone can say he dives is beyond me he clearly jumps to avoid the collision and injured himself on the fall. It was always going to be a foul cout was passed him and Williams leg was bringing him down calling it a dive is ridiculous.

Nine times out of tencout lands and doesn't get injured and is simply a free kick and we all move on but this time the lad gets injured and our is a bow to us so we are naturally angry with the situation but the debate about diving is outrageous

It is possible to be fouled and still dive.

Watching the replay it's perfectly understandable whu some people feel that he threw himself to the ground, though I don't subscribe to that view myself.

I don't need facts honest Liverpool, physics is all I need.

I don't need facts honest Liverpool, physics is all I need.
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Don't forget maths, as well, Blackboard.
99%, and all that...

I don't need facts honest Liverpool, physics is all I need.
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I feared Coutinho would be a victim of his talent this season. Opposition defenders ready to dish out the physical stuff to knock him out of the game - guess the Swansea manager got his tactics spot on.....



Now can the squad absorb the loss???

"Opposition defenders ready to dish out the physical stuff to knock him out of the game - guess the Swansea manager got his tactics spot on....."

Is that a wind up>

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