In the past two seasons Ashley Young has won more penalties than any other player in the Premier League. PENALTIES WON SINCE 2010-11 7 - Ashley Young 5 - Luis Suarez
I wonder how many were proper pens, and i mean proper pens, not a bit of contact, not like the swan dive today. I seem to remember Young falling over quite a bit at Villa. First words out of my mouth when he went over were 'get up you cheating ****'.
Who cares what comes out of your mouth? Just filth and drivel and probably nothing better than what comes outif the opposite end... Just bitter ABUs..
I remember Young playing for Villa a couple of seasons back v Stoke.. **** me he was an embarassment too Villa. Even their fans we're apologising for him after the game. Quote from them.. " he's a smashing player but he has to cut this out of his game" First tme I saw it was on MOTD 2 it looked like a touch a slight touch at worst.. to go down like he did is laughable. It's NOT Utd's fault IMO BUT, blame the ref for being so gullable. I've never seen a red card come out that quickly before.
Caeser TBH Young going down although he made a meal of it, I can understand.. what puzzled me was why the ref gave the red card? Never agreed with this rule as surly a pen and a yellow for the foul is punishment enough? Even then he was offside and like I said above, it's not one teams in this case (Utds) fault it's the standard of ref's. I thought the same when we conceded one of two pens against you at O.T. Pennant clearly got the ball before the player, if that happens outside the area some refs give a free kick, other's simply don't see it. The 2nd pen was blatant Jon Walters took the player out no argument and was only given a yellow card. What was the difference between that and today's inccident? I think, Ashley Young could of stayed on his feet and scored, why he didn't only he knows I guess.
If the defender has touched the striker and affected his run, And he has lost his balance, i cannot see why he has to stay on his feet. A dive s when there s no physical contact, like the one which Carroll performed against Villa.
That's fair enough but I did say.. I think and it's an( oppinion) that he could have stayed on his feet and still scored. Carroll's was ridiculous and the FA should have taken action but again, that's my own view.
As is Drogba, Torres, Suarez, Gerrard, Bale, Walcott and a large majority of other players. Most top flight footballers are coached to go down under ANY contact, especially in the box, it's not like Young is the only one to do it.
My brother used to play youth football in Germany years ago, and back then the kids were taught how 'fall correctly'. He stopped playing coz it pissed him off that they were having lessons in diving.
I remember reading that when the teams get the refs in for a briefing before the start of the season they encourage players to go down under the rationale that they can't give a foul otherwise. That seems to be the hub of the problem. Whilst I really don't like seeing it, there really isn't any club in the league that doesn't have a player that goes down to a soft challenge every now and then, with United being no different.
We Dive, fact!!! We are however the best at it, like everything else involved in football. We are even the best at cheating 20 you bitter **** ****s
