Barclays Premier League - Round 20 - Page 17

quote Chappy_112

Not talking solely about that incident, I'm talking about the way he talks about the diving. He makes out like as long as there is contact then it's fine to go down, it isn't that's called cheating.

Didnt the suarez incident vs stoke prove u have to go down to get anything?

Shirt being pulled, carries on, nothing given, goes down and suddenly it becomes a penalty.

Refs are making players dive to try and get decisions cos u get *bleep* all by staying on ur feet anymore

So if ur running at full speed and someone comes in and catches ur knee, ur not going to go down?

K

You can't just throw out hypothetical situations like that and loosely apply a continuous logic to them. It doesn't accoun for how fast someone is running, the direction, the level of impact etc...

Similarly, if somebody clips your knee and you can carry on running but fall over, why is it a foul? It hasn't caused you to fall, you chose to fall. If a challenge doesn't impede me, drop me or hinder me then it's not a foul.

http://i.mobypicture.com/user/leephelps/view/14512962

Quite clearly knocks Bales right leg, causing him to lose his balance and go down.

It is in no way a dive.

It might not have been one today (link won't work and didn't see it earlier) but there are numerous occaisions where he has previously and that he's attempted to justify it is laughable.

it's definitely a dive despite the contact

but it is

thought bales today was a peno and still do although seeing it again i can see why ppl are saying its a dive, i think the clip into his leg was enough to knock him off his stride tho, not to mention the arm across the chest to stop him



defoes on the other hand was just a blatant dive and you could say it was karma for him not receiving a yellow