If Messi played for us he would be lucky to get 10% of the decisions he gets playing for Barca. He is the most favoured player in La Liga
Appalling one ot the most skillful footballers in the world should resort to such stuff. Spanish football must now be the most dishonest on the planet. We can see that at Chelsea where their Spanish contingent bring the game into disrepute.
I hate that La Liga big boys find the need to do it. Even Messi, who I admire most for being able to ride/dodge a lot of the tackles flying inside/around the box as he weaves his magic, is not averse to those antics when the game is not going Barcelonas' way.
Whenever an English fan criticises any other league of harbouring cheats, it's always worth citing the following names Sadio Mane Ashley Young Jamie Vardy Raheem Sterling Adam Lallana Daniel Sturridge Jack Wilshere Danny Welbeck Wayne Rooney Victor Moses Not to be confused with the list from five years ago, which included Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes...
You missed a couple there mate, one off each list. One of them still holds the record for number of yellow cards for cheating I believe, even though he hasn't played in the PL for a long time.
Not forgetting Oxlade-Chamberlain, who`s lame attempt last night to con a penalty against Italy, was straight from the Welbeck school of theatrics. Morata and Firmino are also a couple of experts in the art of diving.
It does, a big one. Having said that, not every "non-contact" fall is a dive like some scream. It's always best to watch a players reaction as they go down, head turned to ref arm in air probably a dive, eyes watching ball and slaps ground or tries to get up probably a fall.
For example, if they;re appealing to the referee in mid-fall - such as... Funnily enough, the commentators didn't see a problem with this one either.
I've always wondered which player has the record for most yellow cards issued for removing their shirt after scoring.
A year on and time to revisit this thread again. The original question posted by Spurf on the OP ( and hopefully with his permission I am copying and pasting )... ''We are lead to believe by the media rumour factory that Gareth Bale will be leaving Real Madrid this summer and returning to the PL. This is the kind of story the media love and they have never stopped propagating their fiction since he joined Spurs from Southampton. At one time he was useless, an injury liability, and a jonah so the stories do not always bear the hallmark of truth. However we all know that these stories can become self fulfilling prophecies and this time with Real Madrid in a bit of a dip in form there just might be more credibility to a Bale move. Assuming the unlikely possibility that Spurs would/could meet his wage demands would you want him back? A number of questions arise. Did we build in a return clause to the deal with Madrid? A first refusal. Is he a bit of an injury liability anyway? Would he fit the team or would he disrupt the balance? Simply do you want him back?''
If there was a way to guarantee his fitness and the deal was within our financial capabilities (which realistically, it isn’t) then yeah, I’d have him back. Him on the right and Son on the left of Kane would put fear into most if not all of Europe’s defences. Not happening though.
