Posted December 4, 200717 yr http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... 541296.ece Dunno if it's on youtube yet, but for me it was a dive, and a stupid one because he was on a hat-rick. From the camera angle behind the goal he didn't even look at the ball on his run-in to the goal, eye's only on the keeper! Fine player but there has always been this side to his game, if I was Fergie I'd have fined him, not defended him and called the ref and everyone else cheats.
December 4, 200717 yr Author found it: [youtube:9xv2a587]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlezN2h7xF4[/youtube:9xv2a587] Also found them little gem: [youtube:9xv2a587]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scfio8umvbs[/youtube:9xv2a587]
December 4, 200717 yr Not v easy to tell, but 'dive' for me, as his final touch took the ball too wide, where the covering defenders were running back, and so he thought he'd have a bit of a tumble. Very lucky boy not to get a second yellow for that sarcastic round of applause as well.
December 4, 200717 yr That t*at Ferguson whine again and again and seems to get away with it. As soon as we open our mouths we're fined and Ferguson complains that we talk too much. God I hate him so.
December 4, 200717 yr Clear penalty IMO. He's knocked the ball wide of the keeper and tried to clear the keeper but keeper has just come out pretty recklessly.
December 4, 200717 yr Author Clear penalty IMO. He's knocked the ball wide of the keeper and tried to clear the keeper but keeper has just come out pretty recklessly. And failed to make any contact with the player
December 4, 200717 yr To me it looks like Niemi catches him with his glove / arm. Don't want to stick up for a Utd player but if a keeper comes charging out like that and gets nowhere near the ball, then it has to be a pen. If that had been Drogba, Joe, Swp whoever - I'd be screeming for a penalty, no doubt about it.
December 4, 200717 yr As Rob Stiles said after the Gerrard dive at Sheff Utd that won a pen: you don't need to make contact to foul someone.
December 4, 200717 yr Dive or not im suprised he didnt get any further action against his sarcastic appluause of the ref. Rooney got sent off for doing it in the Champions League against Villareal a few years ago.
December 4, 200717 yr Author Rooney also swore at the ref for giving him offside last night, just before he was brought off. Considering this is the same ground Steve Clarke got a suspended sentence for using fowl and abusive language when we had a player dismissed for relatively nothing, I'd say it's one rule for one wouldn't you Fergie?
December 4, 200717 yr It was a dive and not a very good one at that. Must try harder Cristiano, perhaps get some tutoring from Stevie G, or maybe not... [youtube:3ayleezr]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztWniTA0Gxk[/youtube:3ayleezr]
December 9, 200717 yr Clear penalty IMO. However, the one yesterday against Derby was as bad a dive as you're ever likely to see. Cheating f***er!!!
December 9, 200717 yr Which reminds me.. [youtube:3txva90s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scfio8umvbs[/youtube:3txva90s] ^^^^^^ That will teach me for not reading a thread first before posting, but I'm leaving it, the video is worth posting twice in a row.