Terrible. And far worse than the plank-ton who when told by someone that these 3 games would not be a problem for Spurs, claimed that person had said that Spurs will take 9 pts ...
Slight amendment for you. His antics today are not acceptable and draw the focus away from what was a really good team performance. It's not a one off and he needs to learn fast. Fortunately the officials today were incredibly fair, but on another day his simulation might well have cost us the last minute penalty as it would have influenced their later decisions. He's a (talented) prat and needs to cop on quick!
He has the same issue as Bale did ... his diving will cost him and us big time...and it is pissing us off. Hate it personally.
In the hackiest of Hack Watch headlines, the Egypt Independent ran a headline the other day stating that Los Ladrones would have to sign Salah as a condition of Poch taking over this summer. Don Balon would probably think that was far-fetched...
I know what you mean it's not nice to have a "diver" in your side for any team, Suarez was very good at it, drogba a master at it. Unfortunately it's a part of the game now and has been always to some extent defenders used to kick **** out of everyone and get away with it the maradonna wc goal one of the most gifted pkayers if all time. They do it because they can get away with it and because these days the stakes are so high, I think the only solution to eradicate it is to have retrospective punishment. If the ref misses any sort of "cheating " in a game then some kind of panel can dish out reds yellows and bans to any player after the game. It's the only way I can think of
I saw this the other day. Ridiculous tbh No doubt salah will eventually be courted by real barca psg etc if he continues to smash it week in week out. We don't compete on that level yet in terms of recent trophies and success so wtf ya gonna do but get as much as you can ££
Should get a two game ban regardless of whether you get a yellow or not. Then a 3 game ban and by then it'll stop imo.
The problem is it's subjective, how many times have you seen 20 replays from 20 angles and still had pundits and guest refs saying "there was a bit of contact" or "he didn't have to go down" and still can't agree on foul or not. Not sure what the answer is but there are enough blatant no contact dives to start off with and hope it makes a difference.
I get your point but there are some like the Dele one today that are blatant and obvious so like you said, we can start with them.
The first Pool goal was so sloppy.There was Moses standing in the penalty area looking for his donkey and the ball trickles to his feet.Sissoko couldn't have missed that......but then again.....!?
1. We hate deli diving as well, you are right, he needs to cut that out. 2. According to your keeper he only clipped him with his shoulder, so yes there was contact. A soft penalty but by the letter of the law, your keeper impeded him so it is a penalty. However, I wish that referees would give penalties to players who remain on their feet, then forwards would not have to go to ground as if they had been shot, when there is minimal contact. I would have felt hard done by if that penalty had been given against Spurs.
All the controversy over the Kane penalty, it actually nearly cost us the match. We were totally dominant when it was given and looking the more likely to get a late winner, but the penalty save gave the 'pool players and their fans fresh impetus and knocked us back so they should actually be glad it was given! Though it probably didn't change the end result as the likelihood is that it would have finished 1-1.
Pep's Narrative The premier League needs to protect players from bad tackles, specifically my players What Pep's players say "You feel great for 10 games, then you feel OK for 10 games and then the rest you feel like ****." - Kevin De Bruyne, who happens to have started all but five of City's 39 games this season in spite of obvious rotation options on the bench, and he sounds like he'd like a rest about now
Will be interesting to see whether Citeh start dropping points now due to player fatigue. Pochettino by contrast starts rotation more frequently about now, and there have been strong PL finishes to the past two seasons.
That's the point that hacks simply don't understand, and it's been clear ever since they dubbed Ranieri "Tinkerman" when he was at Chelsea for rotating his team: when a team is competing on multiple fronts they need to rotate players to avoid burnout come the run-in - something which the hacks' god Alex Ferguson understood when he heavily rotated the team during the November-January period where European, Premier League and cup matches began to pile up.
It will also by definition condemn the Goons even further if they don't qualify for the CL come May. For they had a very easy 8 EL / League Cup games to do wholesale rotation in during the first half of the season, and at least 2 such EL games to come.
Rubbish game.I wonder what was in a man's head to invent that game.....and then call it football when it isn't! A man throws a strange looking "ball(?)",another runs and catches it.Football? A player,after catching this "ball" runs to the end of the pitch for a "touchdown" when he doesn't "touch it down"!
