I forgot about this thread, but there's clearly more mileage in it. He's been mentioned several times, but it has to be Moanrinho. Not just him, but the way the media won't print a single word against him. The way they think it was somehow due to his special planning that Norwich threw away their lead against Chelsea, or the way the fury over the wrongly given goal against Cardiff quickly died down - partly due I think to a situation that he may well have deliberately created (being sent to the stands) in order to distract from discussion over the unfair nature of the win. What about if Chelsea win the league by 2 points or Cardiff get relegated by 2 points? How long before some pundit says 'it all evens out over the season'. Like hell it does. I will happily admit I'm wrong when a similar decision goes against Chelsea in favour of a 'smaller' team.
They do seem to be getting the "luck" (read favouritism) that utd would normally at OT. Thing is it's been happening for a while. Benitez got some luck at the begining when it could easily have made things more difficult for him. And then there are those offisde goals they got against us a few years ago after Sandro's beauty. Pisses me off because it seems to happen whenever they struggle. When we have a bad day we lose 3-0.
The thing with (Japanese for "woman") Mourinho is the way the papers are so unquestioning in reporting his bullshit word for word, pretty much like they used to do for Ferguson. On the subject of The Purple One, here's a brief summary of his book from the Torygraph... Slags off: Roy Keane, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Rafa Benitez, Steven Gerrard, Carlos Tevez, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Mark Bosnich, Kenny Dalglish, Gerard Pique, Graham Poll, Lee Sharpe, Dimitar Berbatov Sticks up for: Cathy Ferguson, Rio Ferdinand, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Paolo Di Canio, The Glazers, David Moyes, Martin Jol, John Lyall, Mark Clattenberg Thinks would be better players if they joined Man Utd as youngsters: Michael Owen, Frank Lampard, Fernando Torres Won't talk about: Rock Of Gibraltar
That wiff of camel dung as one rides the bus along Holloway Road.Must be a football Stadium close by!!!!!?
That wiff of camel dung as one rides the bus along Holloway Road.Must be a football Stadium close by!!!!!?
Players (other then the team captain) pointing finger instructions on the pitch to others. There should only be one team captain.
Players (other than the team captain) talking with the ref, yet not being waved away or booked for it. Doubly irritating when the ref waves away the captain of the opposing team at the same time.
Having just watched another fat, tobacco spitting baseball player take a 95 mile an hour baseball in the ribs with nothing more than a concealed wince, I'm reminded again how much I hate athletes pretending to be hurt, when they should be concealing pain. By comparison, diving doesn't bother me at all.
Former players or managers using their autobiographies to get digs in at various players or managers who crossed paths with them years before. Be it the laundry list of slagging off in Ferguson's, Roy Keane's being devoted to sticking the boot in to Mick McCarthy, or Robbie Fowler's saying how funny it was to accuse Graeme Le Saux of being gay, it comes across as petty and spiteful.
[video=youtube_share;2qgnT4yb1x8]http://youtu.be/2qgnT4yb1x8[/video] Kicks the ground, jumps up in the air and claims PENALTY!
If he was playing for the opposition in the match, he may just have got the penalty he was looking for...
I don't see how it's a dive, to be honest. The appeal might seem spurious but it's hard to tell whether there was some contact that caused him to kick the dirt. I know a referee shouldn't but I'm inclined to believe that professional footballer like Vidal is very unlikely to bury his boot into the turf when trying to kick a ball, unless something happened to put him off.
No wasn't given and this is a clip from an Italian football show trying to suggest Vidal never dived! [video=youtube;7E7BHROHoc8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E7BHROHoc8[/video] If someone can translate for us!
If you watch that video above, its suggesting he was clipped, and if he was and then kicked the ground, Vidal still jumped up in the air after he kicked the floor, so he wasn't claiming a penalty from the clip, he was diving after he failed to strike the ball!
You'd have to go to the beach or full size swimming pool to see a better one. , If I were judging I'd award a 10.... Superbly executed, faultless.
I watched the game at the time and he definitely looked like he was appealing afterwards. I've seen people go arse over tit when they're just walking and hit their foot into a kerb or whatever so I'm not surprised he went flying when he was running and his shooting stride was abruptly stopped. Not saying it was a pen but I can see why he fell so dramatically.
Having said that, it's been a while since I've seen a good old honest arms-thrown-in-the-air-back-arching-both-legs-off-the ground-shot-in-the-back-by-a-sniper dive.
