Gerrard "is a diver"

[RhylRed]

Whats your agenda mate?

I don't have one.

[einar]

How do you define doing all you can to stay up?

Does "doing all you can" really need defining?

[RhylRed]

if you look at both of those pictures which are about the time friedel caught his second leg he can clearly see imo that gerrard has already gone down, his boy posturing indicates that...

I agree, he is already on his way down.

[RhylRed]

Some people are ridiculous. This thread is a joke. Yeah Gerrard dives but so does every other player in football

Every other player doesn't come out with **** like this though :-


Steven Gerrard - "I don't think there's anything worse than a player diving when no one's been anywhere near him. It does ruin the game. If I saw a team-mate doing it, I would definitely have a word" (The Daily Mail, April 1st 2006)

[RhylRed]

How the **** can anyone on this thread that says Gerrard doesn't dive???

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3112/gerrarddiving3zjab6.gif

What the **** was that? Explain that then?

[Skillz]

You seem to be trying to convince yourself.

[dww]

Who says? You?

A dive is a dive whether there's contact or not. A dive is when a player voluntarily hits the deck, when a player actively chooses to go to the ground - contact or no contact.

Minimal contact does not make it okay to "exaggerate" and go down like you've been shot.

Your comments smack of someone who hasn't played much, if any football.

It's a contact sport and contact doth not a foul make. End of.

I think your comment is fair but that something should only be called a dive (and this may well be implicit in your answer) if the player is seeking an advantage. If they are merely trying to avoid being battered then even if they aren't hit at all it shouldn't IMO necessarily be classed a dive.

[Skillz]

He dived last weekend and we got nothing from the ref all day after that. I hope he drops that from his game and continues to kick arse.

[the rev leeroy brown]

Your right, Gerard cleverly put his foot on Friedel (as he was going by in an attempt to win a peno). I don't know if you have ever played football, but this is done to deceive refs into thinking the defending player made the contact. Its a trick that has been used over and over again in the premiership. It was a clear dive. wasn't

The second one was a free kick as there was clear contact from the defender on Gerard. This could also have resulted in a red card as Gerard was denied a goal scoring opportunity.

I,m a Liverpool fan, but you have to call a spade a spade.

ok "a spade is a spade" and gerard didn't dive. it was a clear cut pen. friedel went through gerards standing foot. whether or not gerard threw his right leg into friedel is, quite frankly, a side issue as friedel DEFINATELY took gerards standing foot.

[einar]

ok "a spade is a spade" and gerard didn't dive. it was a clear cut pen. friedel went through gerards standing foot. whether or not gerard threw his right leg into friedel is, quite frankly, a side issue as friedel DEFINATELY took gerards standing foot.

Well 3 important people disagree with you.

[the rev leeroy brown]

Well 3 important people disagree with you.

well 3 important people are wrong. prob just the type of arseholes on here that like to be different just to start arguements.

[einar]

well 3 important people are wrong. prob just the type of arseholes on here that like to be different just to start arguements.

Gerrard, Friedel and the ref.

[the rev leeroy brown]

Gerrard, Friedel and the ref.

oh right. might be wrong here ( not the first time ) but didn't gerard say the 1st was a pen???

[einar]

oh right. might be wrong here ( not the first time ) but didn't gerard say the 1st was a pen???

No, he said the ref was right.

[RhylRed]

If Ronaldo had done what Gerrard did on Sunday, this board would have exploded. Same with Drogba. When gerrard does the same thing, there is a debate as to whether it is a dive.

A quick youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvWMR4ulwuo

Excuse me on this one, it's an awful watch, but two of them are terrible dives:

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

He dives, as do a lot of players, but he dives.

The england dive is one of his best! ****ing shocking!