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He got a yellow card, accepted it, moved on, a penalty was not awarded, it did not change the outcome of the match.
He expected more contact than there actually was, left a leg trailing hoping to make contact.
I shrug my shoulders at your anger, and the thought that he gets away with it more than any other player in the league because he's this imagined "golden boy".The vitriol is building, with fan group think probably leading towards some sort of beckham backlash if he does anything untoward at the world cup. Personally I don't think he'd deserve that. And I'd think I'd say that if he played for another club.
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He expected more contact than there actually was
Love it. As blinkered excuses go, that one takes the Hobnob.
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He expected more contact than there actually was, left a leg trailing hoping to make contact.
This is a great description of a player diving after not being touched.
I think the vitriol is building, but that's probably because he keeps doing things like that dive yesterday.
It's not entirely his fault, he's a young lad and is influenced by the game where the view is "winning" a penalty is fine, you're entitled to go down if there's contact (even if you instigate that contact), etc. People are getting pissed off with that though and he's the epitome of that at the moment.
cliveo
aggi
Well, it was a pretty blatant dive. The Paddy Power take on it was pretty accurate https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/960210262556069890
The more I've seen him live (going to actual games rather than watching on tv so you see off the ball as well) the bigger twat he's looked. Always in the referee's ear, leaves his foot, unnecessarily getting involved in everything always the first to start shoving the opposition players, and of course hurling himself to the ground if anyone goes near him.
I'm not denying he's a good player and he's a lot bigger and stronger than you'd expect but he'd be getting sent off a lot more if he wasn't the current golden boy.