Torres no diver, but Gerrards a hypocrite

[cled the red]

It make very much sense if it's a foul and the player makes it look worse than it's, play acting.

The result, a penalty and a yellow for play acting.

If he's play acting then a penalty should not have been given, if he was fouled it is a penalty - simple as that!!

AFII, you've come up with some pearlers in your time but this one ranks with the very best!!!

[Los Rojos]

He did go down a little easy and the correct decision would have been a penalty for us a red card for Gattuso and a yellow for Stevie.

C'mon AF. That's silly.

[Craig_H]

Go to hear something like that coming from a player, especially a foreign player.

Didn't hear many of us moan about Gerrard going down easily in the 2005 CL final though.

That was a penalty, he foot was caught and he was running at pace.

Some of his domestic penalty box antics have been nothing short of embarrassing...

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Still this one?

I watched it soooo many times - his foot is taken away!

[Tee]

There is a difference IMO of blatantly diving (ala Pires) and play-acting compared to being 'clever' and winning the odd pen here and there, ala Stevie G

[mancdetester]

It make very much sense if it's a foul and the player makes it look worse than it's, play acting.

The result, a penalty and a yellow for play acting.

there must be a mamoth sized smirk on the other side of your monitor, either that or you are totally mental.

[bobbyfallon]

That was a penalty, he foot was caught and he was running at pace.

Some of his domestic penalty box antics have been nothing short of embarrassing...

the free kick against villa, the free kick against spurs .......

they were soft enough too ?????

[Colemere]

That was a penalty, he foot was caught and he was running at pace.

Some of his domestic penalty box antics have been nothing short of embarrassing...

Not that I'm complaining, but roles reversed I would have been p****d

[bazza76]

The moral of the story is, dive when the time is right. don't do it too often at every opportunity or we will look like we abuse diving.
If I was playing in an important match, and someone tried to take me out, and only slightly clipped me (not enough to go down) and we were to get a good advantage from it, I would go down (non sexually)

[Reece]

there must be a mamoth sized smirk on the other side of your monitor, either that or you are totally mental.

Surely one is a result of the other?

[Craig_H]

the free kick against villa, the free kick against spurs .......

they were soft enough too ?????

The Villa one was a nonsense. Cant remember the Spurs one.

[Reece]

The Villa one was a nonsense.

That wasn't a dive though was it? The Villa player (arguably) obstructed him, and he got the free kick mainly by turning around and waving his arms at the ref.

[bobbyfallon]

The Villa one was a nonsense. Cant remember the Spurs one.

for the goal at the weekend

[Craig_H]

That wasn't a dive though was it? The Villa player (arguably) obstructed him, and he got the free kick mainly by turning around and waving his arms at the ref.

Stevie's crying in the face of the ref was what won the free kick.

[Craig_H]

for the goal at the weekend

Havent seen it on tv and i was near the back of the Kop, so not sure.