Football Focus

[Parkdrive]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Remember Anders Limpar? introduced a new level of

> diving to England.

Try to drag yourself into the 21st century. If you want to go that route lets add Michael "benchwarmer" Owen, and Stevie G.

Henderson- ?20 million, Carroll- ?35 million, Downing- ?20 million, their faces when ?2.75 million Van Persie takes all 3 points: Priceless. Anyone gonna start asking the court jester AKA "King " Kenny how come his his expensive signings can't find their backsides with both hands never mind the back of the net? Spuds, only 4 points now - mind the gap.

[red devil]

A decent dive should have comedy value...

 

[Atticus]

Otta, 'every team has players who do it', care to name names/teams? there is the odd player who might look to take advantage of a shoulder barge, this is not to be compared with certain players who look to cheat at any given opportunity, witness Suarez. apples with pears.

[Parkdrive]

Otta Wrote:

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> Be fair though PD, you can't honestly claim that

> no one in an Arsenal shirt has ever taken a dive!

> Every team has players who do it, so it's a bit

> much going on about it, particularly when you've

> won the 2 matches, and no specific dive has really

> done you any damage.

Bales swan dive with half pike and triple twist could have ended up having our keeper sent off and as for Suarez, don't get me started with him.

[Otta]

And yet he wasn't sent off, and you won both matches.

Atticus, pop over to YouTube, search for Football Dives, and you'll get loads and loads of players from loads and loads of teams.

[Atticus]

cheers otta,

btw name an everton diver?

[Parkdrive]

Otta Wrote:

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> And yet he wasn't sent off, and you won both

> matches.

>

> Atticus, pop over to YouTube, search for Football

> Dives, and you'll get loads and loads of players

> from loads and loads of teams.

Neither here nor there, still a diving cheating twat and shouldn't do it. THAT'S the point.

[Otta]

I know PD, I said as much a couple of posts ago.

[Atticus]

Otta, so who is repeatedly worse? I only ask because you try to justify it as a common curse of the game. Klinsman and Ronaldo perhaps but when considered as a club collective I can't think of worse than Owen, Gerard and Suarez, prove me wrong.

[Otta]

Everton fan thinks Liverpool are the worst club for diving. Wow, what a totally unpredictable shock, I can hardly believe it.

btw name an everton diver?

(I distance myself from calling fans and players scum by the way)

Leon Osman

Tim Hibbert

I'm not trying to say that it's rife at Everton, but don't try to tell me that the fine gents who don the blue shirt are somehow above taking a dive.

I admit that Liverpool players have dived, but trying to suggest that it's some sort of ingrained part of the football club is just biased nonsense, but not surprising.

This little Hall of shame would suggest Spurs are pretty bad for it, but I wouldn't call Spurs a team of divers. And hang on, is that an Everton player I see in that list??? Surely not, as Everton players DO NOT DIVE!!!

And PD, surely no Arsenal player would ever take a dive?!?!?!?

Oh hang on.

And there's more

I hate pasting all this stuff, as I have not moaned about other teams diving, and as I said, I wish no Liverpool player would dive. But, for anyone to come opn here and try to say that their team would never do a thing like that, well, that's just bul!shit.

[Otta]

And in the interests of balance, and to show that, unlike some on here, I can admit that a player on my team can be baughty.

 

[Atticus]

your google skills are to be admired. Do you think Osman and think 'diver'? Doubt it. Scum? when did I say that?

[Huguenot]

You didn't say it Atticus, it was in the opening frames of the video as a rather teutonic 'skum'.

[Otta]

My "Google Skills" that have so impressed you involved going to google and typing "Everton player dives". Believe me, I didn't have to dig deep.

And no, I don't think ",diver" when I think Osman, my point was simply that it happens.

You, as ever, just want to paint Liverpool as the baddies. Whatever makes you happy man.

Christ, you must have wet your pants when Stephane Henchoz's hand blocked an Arsenal shot in the 2001 cup final.

[Undisputedtruth]

*rolls eyes*

To be fair to Atticus, the Everton dives were done by their fringe players desperate to justify their place in the team. Even then, the dives didn't look blatant, unlike Liverpool's.

[Ladygooner]

Andre Villas-Boas sacked - who next for Chelsea?

[maxxi]

Rafa apparently.

[red devil]

I thought the whole point of AVB's appointment was that he was a new broom to sweep away the deadwood, and that he would be given time to rebuild an aging squad...more short termism from RA, not that I'm complaining

[????]

The Special One will be back

[Undisputedtruth]

Chelsea have not played well since Ray Wilkins left the club in November 2010.

[Parkdrive]

Spuds ship 8 goals in 2 games. Interestingly many of their fans are blaming the talk of the twitching Churchill dog taking the England job. Not just the fact thay were out scored in 2 weekends then?

[Jah Lush]

Oh bugger! Thought Spurs played quite well today and then Man U get three chances and stick them all away. That's football. I can't remember the last time we beat Man Utd. Maybe Red Devil can enlighten me on that one. I knew we'd lose today by the way.

PS: I've never ever ever seen an Arsenal player dive or cheat in anyway whatsoever. They are so honest those Gooners. They are beyond reproach. And Arsene Wenger's eyesight is the best in the world and he's never ever been known to winge. EVER!

[Jah Lush]

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Spuds ship 8 goals in 2 games. Interestingly many

> of their fans are blaming the talk of the

> twitching Churchill dog taking the England job.

> Not just the fact thay were out scored in 2

> weekends then?

I don't where the fuck you get your information from? Perhaps you've forgotten we scored five against Newcastle? OK it's gone a bit tits up since then but we'll be back winning again very soon.

[Alan Medic]

Even SAF said that talk of a manager leaving can be unsettling to a team. He experienced that. I suppose you know better though Parkdrive.

[Undisputedtruth]

Tottenham needs to get themself back to winning ways as Arsenal is only four points behind and undefeated in all of their Premiership games last month.