This was my comment early on in this thread: You have seriously misinterpreted Bales comments. I doubt your Spurs credentials and I doubt you are posting in good faith. You have been noticed coyspurs.
How would you know? are you a season ticket holder at our place then? There's certainly not 4 dives per game on MOTD coverage....me thinks you're talking ****e!
probably does sprnd alot of time watching us..i dont blame him..however he needs to stop wearing Wenger's glasses.
Arsenal fans love a made up "STAT". Arsenal4Life said earlier today that the Gooners have spent several years with the 5th highest wages in the PL. It's been two years
I'm an Arsenal fan, and a football fan. When somebody is on Sky, be it Spurs or Accrington Stanley I watch it, if its on ESPN I watch it, if its on MOTD I watch it, if its on an internet feed I watch it. Do you get it? Bale is doing blatent dives particularly this season all through the games, the "pundits" and commentators rarely call them dives they say "went down easily", "looking for it", "slight contact", however in reality those are all dives and everybody knows it. And it is a FACT that Bale has been booked twice for diving this season.
He has played 30 games this season and been booked twice. Surely if he had dived four times a game it would be more than that? Or do you see things that other people don't? Maybe you have special powers? DO you have a season ticket? I'm not sure how you could watch us and every other league game at the same time.
Spurf Anyone who thinks Bale dives for us to gain an advantage via a Freekick clearly has never seen our freekicks or set pieces this season
Bear in mind that he claimed that Bale dived four times a game in and around the box so that must mean that he dives about - what - ten times a game if you include all the dives elsewhere on the pitch? I wouldn't give the WUM oxygen...
That is so lame, clearly I only watch the games that are scheduled and games that I want to on the net (Arsenal). The rest I watch on Motd, they have a summary of all the games on there I believe. As I'm sure you realise there are many decisions in game that are not given that everybody knows should be. If the FA had any balls then they would instruct refs to book players religiously for diving, but clearly they dont. What about all the times players go down dramatically and the refs give nothing, in theory they should be bookings too if they were not fouls. If the rules were applied properly Bale, Rooney and Suarez would continually get sent off for diving and after a while they would stop doing it. There is your solution.
An Arsenal fan moaning about diving without a hint of irony. If a player goes down and he's not fouled, it's not automatically a dive. It can be a fair, physical challenge, for a start.
So how do you speak with authority about Bale or anyone else for that matter? You only see the handful of games on the TV and no others. You should substitute "everybody knows" for "I think." That might give you an ounce of credibility. Anybody with half a brain (You may want to borrow a quarter of somebody elses for this) knows that football referees are there to interpret the rules of the game. Decisions are not black and white, they require more thought than that (perobably where you are struggling.) Who knows? Maybe the ref's train of thought goes, "I couldn't give Skirtl a second booking for putting Bale into the stands as I want 22 players on the pitch," or "Bale has had never ending stick all afternoon, no way am I going to book him for diving." The game is about more than the rules.
