Comments on: Sent Off For That?

By: Joep

Joep — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:14:40 +0000

@UKhanDoIt

Diving is a much, much larger issue in England than it is anywhere else in the world, I think. An issue in the sense that people get so worked up about it. I don’t approve of diving at all, but if you ask me if I would rather see a player roll over a few extra times than see a player injure another player than the answer is yes. I sometimes get the feeling that isn’t the the case in England.

By: Jape

Jape — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:08:07 +0000

Funny how Drogba stomps him and then pulls his leg up high like he accidentally rolled his ankle and hurt it and never intended to cleat the s**t out’ve dude’s ankle.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:52:56 +0000

The ref was following the ball and then he turned his attention to the box where the ball was about to be crossed. What he probably saw was Drogba throwing Motta over his back and then stomping on his calf. Red all the way.

By: cjdomer04

cjdomer04 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:31:56 +0000

The ref has two options there: 1) Drogba intentionally stamped and a red or 2) Drogba slipped as he is getting up and play on. Once he called it a foul, it was straight red. I could have seen him give a penalty for Motta hugging Drogba at full speed, but the stamp was a separate issue.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:09 +0000

I mean, they’re symptomatic of each other. Players dive because of idiotic tackling, and idiots tackle harder because “well, if I’m going to get blown up for it, I might as well get value for money.”

By: UKhanDoIt

UKhanDoIt — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:23 +0000

@joep
Not exclusive, but perhaps taken a step further which is still two steps two far in my opinion.
Frankly i’m bemused by your apparent acceptance of diving and rolling ten metres on the ground in apparent agony; i much prefer watching the game and not some guy milking it for a couple minutes. What every happened to playing through it (see hockey playoffs)

By: Joep

Joep — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:44:25 +0000

That last comment was in response to UKhanDoIt’s response, just to be clear

By: Joep

Joep — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:43:48 +0000

Please don’t start with this. Diving or exagerating isn’t exclusive to Italian or other non-english and non-Prem players (see, Gerrard, Steven). Furthermore, I fail to see why so many people worry about diving or exagerating fouls. While annoying as hell, it would make more sense to me that people get upset at some of the quite frankly idiotic tackling going on in the sport.

the next time I hear an english commentator chuckle at saying the words “Paul Scholes Special” after he barely missed amputating a fellow professionals leg Im going to be sick.

By: Ronaldo is a fatty

Ronaldo is a fatty — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:36:12 +0000

should have been a red for Thiago-Motta as well

By: Eladio

Eladio — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:35:54 +0000

So he’s out for CL games next year then? First 3 group matches, I would guess. Like deja vu all over again.