Steven Gerrard's "dive" and "loss of respect" for him

It's easy to say someone is diving from our point of view. We aren't in the shoes of the footballers so we don't really know what happens. Sometimes, you slip and it looks like a dive. You get off balance and you fall, and people call you a diver. Sometimes, you see a dangerous challenge coming towards you and you need to get out of the way.

So it's really a subjective thing.

Our Stevie doesnt dive, if anything (and its beens said on here before) he gets himself out of a tackle which could cause harm

hi, as a life long liverpool fan, i think gerard is 100 the best midfielder in the  prem leauge however i do think he is abit of a diver to be honest and a player of his quilty does not need to be.

To say Stevie doesn't dive is a bit blinkered IMO.  Of course he does and its the only part of his game I don't like.  I know its a part of the modern game but as someone said, a player of Gerrard's quality doesn't need to do it and I hate seeing it.

He does have habit of falling BUT its only when we're in desperate need of something to go our way so i dont blame him to do it.

Against Atletico, AC Milan (Istanbul) and now he has fallen rather easily to be 100% honest but they are up to the ref's discretion. I think a yellow is too severe in the situation however.

Was annoyed when i saw him go down you could see he was looking for the free kick and when the ref gave him the yellow it just made him look more of a tw*t. Having said that i can understand what he was thinking as the time was running out and he must of being thinking we not getting through so i gotta try anything to get the points which also goes to show his character and the passion he has for our club he would rather go down and look like a tw*t if it doesn't come off, he didn't do it at all before then it shows he is thinking of the club and doing any thing to get the points.

I'll have a problem with Gerrard diving, when the likes C.Ron, Drogba, LAMPARD, Quaresma and those players that are suppose to have star like qualities

It's just apart of the game, maybe not the English but certainly in Spain...Have you dived today? try it works...

Gerrard definitely dives, we can't really defend that but neither can any team, it'd just be hypocritical, there are divers in every team, everywhere. What Gerrard doesn't do is roll about on the floor like he's been shot, a trait you can attribute to Ronaldo, Quaresma, Drogba, Robben etc, which is just trying to get the offending player in trouble.

Bit naughty this has been bumped back up a couple of days after the game.  If it was straight after I could understand.

Our Stevie doesnt dive, if anything (and its beens said on here before) he gets himself out of a tackle which could cause harm

Ah come on !! That's kind of like saying Gerorge Bush isn't a war monger he's giving the world the gift of freedom !! Look the fact is every player in the league, if they are in need of a goal and feel any sort of contact in the penalty area goes down. Stevie is no different from anyone else. He cannot be accused of being in the same league as the likes of Drogba and Ronaldo on this one though !!

Not even in the same league as that perennial diving gobs***e Ronaldo

Never heard anyone complaining when Hamann used to win free-kicks

I'll never lose respect for Steven Gerrard no matter what he does.

I'll never lose respect for Steven Gerrard no matter what he does.

What if he murdered your whole family, burned anfield to the ground, joined united and scored a hat-trick against us ??

What if he murdered your whole family, burned anfield to the ground, joined united and scored a hat-trick against us ??

How you even thought of that stuns me.

Come on! If Liverpool were drawing 0-0 into the nintieth minute and they need 3 points to beat Utd to win the title and Gerrard dived to win us a penalty which won us the title would you be disappointed with Gerrard because I wouldn't.

How you even thought of that stuns me.

I have an incredibly active and frightningly grim imagination!

Come on! If Liverpool were drawing 0-0 into the nintieth minute and they need 3 points to beat Utd to win the title and Gerrard dived to win us a penalty which won us the title would you be disappointed with Gerrard because I wouldn't.

At the same time you have to ask if we were drawing 0-0 against the mancs and Ronaldo dived in the 90th minute and got a penalty to win the game would you be happy ?? Diving is not a nice aspect to the game and it can ruin it but this is the real world and it exists and all we can do is try to be honest or benefit from that aspect of the game as much as everyone else does.

Me neither. I would be very proud of him. Maradona scored with his hand, therefore it is peanut.

Not sure what to make of this thread, who honestly has lost respect for our captain?
I can't remember him properly diving for a long long time, he may have over done the theatrics but he was was still fouled.
Loss of respect?  Never!

who honestly has lost respect for our captain?
Loss of respect?  Never!

I don't know the summers of 2004 and 2005 were testing times 

I don't know the summers of 2004 and 2005 were testing times 

I'm sure Rick the pr**k didn't help those situations did he?

Agreed, old argument anyway, just glad he ours!

Another couple tomorrow and heap further misery on the blueshite

Agreed, old argument anyway, just glad he ours!

Another couple tomorrow and heap further misery on the blueshite

Hopefully fella. Would be class to see him throw a few raspers in at their place.

Derby hat trick? Imagine it!

Let them say what they want hes our's an always will be! We dont need Cockneys to lick his arse! We know he's class!