How mant of these dives are actually dives though?
Throwing out stats means nothing, as according to the stats fabregas dived yesterday.
I watch all chelseas games the only dive that was stonewall ive seen this season is the cahill one.
ramieres doesn't play so how is he a serial diver? Drogba the same.
ivanovic against west ham wasnt a dive. He went down under contact looking for a penalty which for sone reason is ok for players like raheem sterling but not for "a big strong centre back".
Hazard is not a diver. Idk where you get that from look at the stoke game. Got kicked all over the place and went back for more.
this is what im talking about. Where is our reputation coming from? The media.
They've stoked this fire for so long, people that (with respect) dont watch us so dont have a clue have juat lapped it up.
I think you'll find that it only takes two games to gain a reputation, or even one game depending on the player.
The blame squarely rests on the play actors. Yes some get noticed more than others but the game is riddled with it, I pointed out that only high profile teams\players get noted for it mainly because those clubs have the most fans ergo the articles get more attention. It's pan handling pretending to be journalism, the number of views is now a determination of quality rather than the content of the article. Life is pretty much like that really, if you are a no body and you can get the attention of a few million people with some talentless behaviour you get sponsors and £££, big brother nobodies and wags with perfumes are a perfect example.
Because players cheat refs make mistakes in hte context of diving. If no player ever dived refs would not be booking players for diving when they were actually fouled in the area.
Fab wasn't a dive but given the antics of the others and an obviously poor interpretation of what he saw, the ref booked him. How much was on is mind about the antics from a couple of games ago with 3 clear dives.
It is not only Chelsea, United ad Young and Rooney who were prolific divers. Rooney definitely does it less and has lost that rep, Young will have to go 2 seasons without it to clear his name.
Oscar to be fair has been the one who made people take note this season and the trio of dives recently just made it worse, every booking you pick up for it from now on will just smear the team and refs will probably make mistakes like with Fab because we know for a fact they judge players before a ball is kicked, but everyone was fine when that happened to someone like Suarez, it's his own fault you said, all of you, well it's the same here, this is the 2nd igh profile diving issue this season and it's been Chelsea both times, and not without justification, as I said Oscar deserved the slating, and after the likes of Cahill's dive, and that was accompanied by 2 other bookings! what do you or Jose expect?
Jose knows this, Jose can see replays in detail just like the rest of us. Had Fab dived Jose would still be saying exactly what he is saying now, that there is a campaign against Chelsea, which is ridiculous, the media just love to make villains, now that Suarez has gone, they've moved on to someone else
It's not difficult, no one gets a rep for diving if they don't dive, and a team does not get a rep as a bunch of divers if they do not dive.
Answer, dive less or get better at it.
