Sorry but this "foreign" nonsense is just that. It may have been twenty years ago but now pretty much all players do it. In my own team I've seen Gerrard do it, I've seen Rooney, Wiltshire, etc etc all "home" players. As I said before Refs encourage it by only giving decisions when the fall is exaggerated rather than starting to give penalties when they see a player fouled even if they manage to stay on their feet. The refs can control this behaviour rather than encourage it. They just need to be braver.
Tobes been back on the board for a week or two and he's already polluting every thread on the board with pointless long winded arguments where he never accepts that he's wrong even if there's actual evidence proving him wrong. And when it does happen he just starts abusing everyone who questions him.
This. Said it 100 times but until ref's start giving free kicks/penalties when players stay on their feet then players are always going to go down instead. And because the foul doesn't bring them down naturally they have to make themselves fall which look unnatural (obviously) and then leads to accusations of diving.
Rooney does it every game but #bbcsalford and the jingoistic national press won't dare accuse their hero. The best debate they dare to come up with is whether he has fulfilled his "true potential" or not, as if being a fat smoker isn't an automatic NO FFS
This is the guy who maintained for days that Paulinho shouldn't have been sent off for Spurs when he kicked Suarez in the chest because 'He hardly made contact', and insisted that Suarez dived against Villa, even though every serious commentator and analyst (even the ones who hate Liverpool like Samuel) said it was stonewall. Put him in the same class as Collymore though.
Something happen today??? Tough to not get emotional seeing a man like Gerrard who has worked so hard to get this prem title for LFC and he is so close he can ****ing taste it. Loved that at the end.
LOL you are really hurting today aren't you. Your level of bitterness and bollox is way above your usual.
Cant believe your disagreeing that suarez was lucky to be on the pitch. The guy who has played a huge part in getting you to a point where you could win the league, almost cost it you as well. Also is there a rule that says no penalties will be given again skrtel?
All this makes it all the sweeter, every little incident others get away with week in and out are amplified in the minds of the teeth grinders Skertl... Pah seen it every game in every league.... As for Suarez yeah it it were eithad he'd be off, deal with it... In the away game we wiz robbed so karma
Andy Carroll got away with punching our keeper last week, so yeah you see that sort of thing a lot. Your players handle the ball a lot too, the only difference is they are picking it out of the back of the net on the way to another defeat.
You never see vidic and Evans or terry or kompany pull and drag? Our main issue is agger not doing it Hell every game I see in Europe has the ref warning guys and then doing nothing
they see it all the time, only time they have a problem is when we benefit from it,what does that tell you. we have been massively shafted by officials this season, but in the same breath got away with a few as well, for once for us it probably is a case of it evens itself out, #nojinx (still have chelsea to play!!!!)