If I had a pound for every time I saw him called 'buck toothed' 'rat faced' etc... Bit harsh to say Kuyt had a reputation for diving, either. Very rarely did. Cole? When does he even play for us? The only person who played him regularly was Roy, and Cole was sent off more than he dived! Gerrard dives very occasionally. Seems to be a popular one for rival fans though (which is understandable).
Liverpool fans resorting to stereotypical insults after they were aghast when Suarez's blatant dive wasn't given as a pen. Can't believe they defend the bloke, quality player but a complete twat.
That, I would agree with, Little Luke. Only an embittered Mouser would even attempt to claim that Rooney is a diver.
Rooney has one or 2 incidents of going down easy but Brendan Rodgers endorses that now so theres no complaints from the Pool fans
I was perfectly happy with this outcome, but this is a big, fat dive: [video=youtube;VTxl799Q2t4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTxl799Q2t4[/video] Ended Arsenal's unbeaten run of cheating, diving dishonesty at the expense of Judas. Suarez should've got one today too, but dives all the time, so **** him.
Overmars and Begkamp, too. One day commentators will realise Dutch players are blatant divers, but that will only come when their knowledge of football isn't rooted in the mid-1970s... (See also: Robben, Kluivert, Sneijder, van Bommel)
To suggest Rooney isn't a diver is one of the most myopic statements I've seen. The guy has dived countless times. As it happens I agree with PNP re: Rooney dive. I had no sympathy for them at all given how ill-disciplined they were and how often they cheated to beat teams.
Read what Rodgers said without your bias . I mean that is poor by your standards. And Rooney does dive. He also cheats, elbows, punches, stamps and claps at referees. Apart from that he's a lovely chap.
Okay, so Rooney might take the odd unassisted tumble, but it's not something that plagues his game, not in the same way that it plagues Gerrard or Suarez, and a long, long list of former Arsenal players.
It doesn't 'plague' Gerrard's game. People talk about it when he does it because it happens quite rarely, and because in his book he said he didn't like diving. There's also a difference between diving and going down easily. He's guilty of the latter.
To be fair, I do think that Gerrard has been punished unfairly for one or two high-profile dives that he did to con the ref. One was where he "threw" his trailing leg out behind him as he was actually diving, and video replays showed clearly that there had been no contact. Suarez, on the other hand, is up there with the likes of Eduardo. The only real diver that we had was Klinsman, and he made a joke out of the whole thing.
It's ingrained in the DNA of your club though. in his autobiography, Jimmy Melia said that Bill Shankly used to encourage the players to practise diving in training as he felt that it was fair game and if other teams wanted ti do it they should feel free to do so. It was part iof the reason Jimmy left Anfield. It's also a well known fact that Liverpool's double season of 1986 was only made possible due to a blatant dive by Ian Rush in the penalty area in the 89th minute of an FA Cup quarter final replay.
Not sure about that HIAG, I think most other fans view Bale as a bit of a diver, or someone who "goes down easily", I can think of 2 or 3 incidents when I have shuddered at the sight of Bale going down dramatically after little or no contact. Having said that, Bale is often the victim of unashamed thuggery from the likes of Charlie Adam so perhaps this gives him a license to go down easily.
