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Anfieeeeeld grrrrrrrrr

Saurez dives worse.

Oh wait I think that's what the OP is on about

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OK - change of tack - can we ONLY discuss on this thread and leave it off others

Tom Daley dives, cretin.

All players dive. I don’t agree with it but it’s part of the game just like garth crooks

Drogba dives and it becomes a national debate.

Stevie G dives and nobody says a word:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVb2gbMtN3I

Michael Phelps dives.

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Klinsmann dives

...and nobody says a word!

I'm a Liverpool fan but will admit Suarez dives and Gerrard has dived once or twice in the past.

My beef is more with the physical players such as Drogba and Bale, constantly dive when they are big lads.

comment by Superb (U6486)
posted 2 minutes ago
Drogba dives and it becomes a national debate.

Stevie G dives and nobody says a word:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVb2gbMtN3I
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Nobody ever shuts up about Gerrard diving despite the fact, it'll be a couple of times a season, whereas Drogba will do it, ten times a game.

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If you get tripped it doesnt matter how big you are. Gerrard has dived many a time, maybe not as prolific as drog though.

Most of Drogba's dives are not being clipped around the ankles though, that's the difference. They are like brushes of the shoulder and he goes down holding his face. Despite being built like a brick sh%t house

It used to be the case that we could blame those ‘bloody foreigners’ for bringing diving to our game but you only have to look at Gerrard, Bale, Adam Johnson, Walcott, Ashley Cole, Lampard, etc……….
All English…..all been guilty of diving.

comment by WhiteBic - Next week next Saturday - It ain�... (U4817)
posted 1 minute ago
If you get tripped it doesnt matter how big you are. Gerrard has dived many a time, maybe not as prolific as drog though.
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Many a time? Ok, let's have them. Over his 12 or so years, tell me, backed up with evidence, how many times Gerrard has dived.

Then think of another player you consider to dive and think of how many times he dives during one game and compare that to Gerrard who you consider somebody who dives a lot.

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Watching Drogba last night was like watching Tom Daley with football boots on.

I don't think Suarez actually dives anywhere near as much as everyone says he does; what he DOES do is go pretend that he's been hit with an axe in the shin, even if he's only been tripped up, which I really wish someone would tell him to stop doing.

What really gets on my wick are players like Didier Drogba, who will bulldoze defenders with his strength but fall over if the defenders try to use their strength at all - the referee will buy it nine times out of ten, too. Kevin Davies is the same, and whilst he doesn't feign injury as like Drogba, I get just as annoyed because commentators actually PRAISE him for it.

comment by Dr Seven Grater (U13441)
posted 1 minute ago


I don't think Suarez actually dives anywhere near as much as everyone says he does; what he DOES do is go pretend that he's been hit with an axe in the shin, even if he's only been tripped up, which I really wish someone would tell him to stop doing.

What really gets on my wick are players like Didier Drogba, who will bulldoze defenders with his strength but fall over if the defenders try to use their strength at all - the referee will buy it nine times out of ten, too. Kevin Davies is the same, and whilst he doesn't feign injury as like Drogba, I get just as annoyed because commentators actually PRAISE him for it.
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Yeah, really clever these big lumps who force their defenders to brush against them, which knocks them for six.

Dr Seven / TOOR

I think the one Luis really got the flak for, and it will stay with him, was the dive after he kicked Kompany, and then went down clutching his shin as if he had been axed.

One of your daft fans even tried to use that as an example of Luis not diving with a youtube clip.

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
Dr Seven / TOOR

I think the one Luis really got the flak for, and it will stay with him, was the dive after he kicked Kompany, and then went down clutching his shin as if he had been axed.

One of your daft fans even tried to use that as an example of Luis not diving with a youtube clip.
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He didn't dive. A lot of people are blinded by their hate. Try to look at things objectively. Kompany went in with his studs, Suarez kicked his studs, who needs to dive from that? I'm sure if you've played football and kicked the studs of another player, you'll know how painful it is.

Even the handball in the World Cup is brought up as him being a cheat, yet in nearly every game, a player handles the ball and/or does something else against the rules. If the assistant had been doing his job right, Suarez wouldn't even have handled the ball, as it was offside anyhow. If you look at the following clip, you'll see that Suarez clears a shot off the line with his foot, from a player who was offside(remember there has to be two players in between the goal and the attacker and the goalkeeper was well off his line).

Suarez goes down easily as if he's been shot, I've also seen him diving once or twice but certainly not diving around every game like Old Whiskey and the like suggests.