They got booked again today for a dive. Not that it should have been this time but they are getting quite the reputation for diving.
Listening to Mourinho he's a joke. Out of Sir Alex's book of comments. They dive, what goes around comes around. No pen anyway.
Yea they dove a couple times against us as well. Think they said on the TV that it is their 7th card for diving already this season. I might be wrong about that I was in the next room when they said it.
It was clearly not a dive and certainly wasnt a yellow card. They are though diving a lot this season. Not sure what the record for cards from diving in a season is but they have to be getting close to it.
They are getting almost as bad as Arse nal, they always ensure that they have a trailing leg that can catch the tackling leg and then crash like a sack of spuds
Wouldn't stand a chance in the local sales, they tackle like Norman "Bites yer Legs" Hunter over here and that's just the women.
There seems to be a view now that if you're touched it can't be a dive, but look at how he goes down. Yes he touched him but the contact is minimal and it doesn't prevent his leg moving forward at all. He chooses to go down with his upper-body first. I ****ing hate this 'entitled to go down' bollocks. Either you're brought down or you stay on your feet. I'm not even saying it shouldn't have been a penalty, I just wish players would stay on their feet and don't like seeing Fabregas defended here as if he's not exaggerated it at all.
I believe Mourinho has been rather critical in the past of other sides that he perceived to have dived. In which case, the **** needs to batten down the hatches and take the onslaught that's coming his way. No one likes a cheat, you hypocritical ****.
Completely agree that would not trip an 11 year old never mind a physically strong footballer. He got touched doesn't mean you have to go down. The issue for me is you don't get a free kick or penalty unless you go down which is wrong as it is forcing people to go down.
But surely the point is, you don't deserve a free kick or a penalty because no offence was committed? Throwing yourself to the floor is cheating.
An offence can be committed though. Fabregas certainly through himself to the floor but the trip was enough to make him stumble or at least give him a disadvantage and most likely lose his chance to create anything, it was still a foul albeit a very soft one. I remember the N'gog dive which everyone went rage about. The thing is even though there was no contact it should still have been a penalty, the defender lunged in between player and ball with no chance of winning it forcing N'Gog to jump over the challenge, losing his momentum and control of the ball with it. I don't condone him diving but the sad truth is we all know he'd have been given **** all if he didn't.
If Fabregas never gets another decision going for him in his career then I'd say that's about fair. If I was reffing him he'd be sent off for breathing. Odious, cheating, flobbing twat.
So obvious what Mourinho is doing. He's playing mind games with the referees. I bet you in the next month have a major decision go for them.
