I understand from what I read in the paper that Gareth Bale collected a yellow card yesterday for diving in the box, which is the 5th time this season he has recieved a yellow for the same offence! Does anyone know if this is a PL record?
I think it is 6 too, but only two were in any way justified. He moves so fast the refs don't see the foulls
Reputation went against him yesterday...can't say I feel too sorry for him. Probably some dives where he didn't get booked as well.
It's his 4th in the league, 5th if you're looking at all competitions. Out of those 5 only the Inter one was a dive, not to say that it was the only dive he's made this season though. I'm not sure a booking for a dive is an appropriate punishment or that it's putting players off diving, if anything we're just becoming more used to it and starting to accept it with pundits saying things like "I think he has a right to go down there" "there's just enough contact there", etc. That's the way things seem to be going so I've stopped caring about diving, everyone should do it when they think they can get away with it. It's far too flawed and hypocritcial to put any importance on it at the moment.
I agree with that. Bans are the only way to stamp it out. 2 game ban for 1st offense and increase by a game each subsequent one.
A dive is by all accounts subjective. It would be very difficult to sanction bans for it, as much as I'd liken to see serial divers like Young, Welbeck and Suarez punished for it.
It's fairly simple, punish the obvious ones with bans. There are plenty of camera angles available of every single incident, if needed. Whenever a player goes down with no or minimal contact(and I mean very minimal) they will receive a ban, 1 game if the ref wasn't fooled, 3 if they were and gave them a freekick/penalty. The difference between whether they've conned the ref or not is very important as you'll actually be encouraging honesty in the process. As for the rest, if there's debatable dives you have no choice but to let it go, which to be fair happens a lot already. Leave the grey area grey and at it's very worst the rule would get players diving more convincingly and who knows, at its best, we might see less diving and players occasionally getting up after a dive and apologising to the ref so they don't get the decision and avoid the 3 game ban and the fine the club would give them. The FA like to wait until it's got totally out of hand though and they won't deal with diving until one denies a team a trophy, which I hope happens soon because it's fast becoming an accepted part of the game now. Until then it's being treated as a minor infringement by the FA so we might as well treat it like that too.
He is entitled to fall over in whatever way he feels will best protect him from injury. The wording of the Laws is clear - you are not allowed to simulate a foul - they say nothing about how you must fall after you have been fouled. Most of Bale's yellows have been clear refereeing mistakes. The one on Sunday was the most ludicrous yet - it was impossible for anyone to be sure that it was a dive from the angle that the ref viewed it. I don't mind that he didn't give a penalty - if he didn't see it he can't give it. But he couldn't have seen a dive either because there wasn't one!
Bale could have taken a foul outside the box, instead he tried to use it as an excuse to needlessly dive in the box. Cheat.
Hey, guys! Remember I nailed my colours to the mast three seasons ago and said that Bale is going nowhere? Well, guess what? Looks like he's signing a new £130,00 per week contract to stay at Spurs! Laugh at that, if you will.
it doesnt matter if he stays or goes Spurs will never reach the heights you delude yourselves into thinking you can.
But if we add a striker who can actually score goals, we'll be up on the same points as you, even if you do manage to get Mourhino in. That's got to worry you?
not really we had to play 69 games this season and rotate our squad and you forget non of our strikers reach double figures in the league so our strikers were far from prolific either.
