Diving Syndrome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://youtube.com/watch?v=mF8KRm0CLCM

Do any other players have this disease? Malouda, Robben, Drogba and Andy Johnson are a few of many!

Thanks for making my blood boil. I couldn't even watch the whole video. I don't know how anyone hasn't twatted Ronaldo at this stage. If any of us fell over like that while playing footie on the street we would been laughed out of it.

oh my god remeber rivaldo brazil against turkey in the 02 world cup the turkish lad kicked the ball to rivaldo i think it was a corner or free to Brazil anyway the ball hit rivaldo in the knee well the knob throws himself to the ground holding his face!! the turkish lad got sent off i think to add to the madness

if i was a manager id bollock any of my players out of it for doing it its so fu**in annoying

worst offenders

robben
ronaldo the mancy one
 drogba and the size of him too
too many more too mention

HAHAHA. The end is hilarious..

I think johnson doesn't dive so much as set it up so the defender can do nothing but foul him. It's not diviing to me.

Just playing devil's advocate here, but as much as I dislike dislike, the argument the "continentals" give is that it is only as bad as making a tactical foul, which is so often stated as being "clever" by pundits and the like over here. In the same way, diving is seen elsewhere in europe and in south america as being exactly that, clever. Its quite hypocritical of us to take issue with one form of cheating, while praising the other. I'm not a fan of either, and there is something degrading about both, but to an extent both are excepted in one footballing culture and slated in the other.

Yeah but there is no acting or fooling the referee with a tactical foul. Tactical fouls are "honest" if you know what I mean. You stick your leg out and trip someone. Everyone can see it and knows why you did it. You usually get punished.

Good to see Arjen Robben's moved to a new club and has decided to change his ways.



The diving b***ard.

Now that he has left Chelsea I find his diving comical and amusing.

Whereas before I found it sickening and distasteful.

Funny that.

Didas dive against Celtic on Wednesday was rediculous.  I think the official line is that he was subbed through embaressment.  Because of the way he went down my initial though was that the fan had cut him or something.  To manage to look like more of a tw*t than the fan that did it was quite remarkable.

i might take a dive on monday...out of work!!

Actually i love diving, having a mess about in school, if you get away with it, its actually hilarious, but i dont do a Dida vs Celtic, thats just being a pussy.

I think that most soccer players while running will fall if touched lightly, people milk the frees too much though, but sometimes not milking it doesn't get you a free. Diving can sometimes be important in a game, but like Dida, oh and how about Saha, they both have late reaction diseases, that just ruins the game

Anyone use Wiki much?

If so read the article on Diving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving#Famous_Divers

A lot of Cardiff fans I know say Gerrard is the biggest diver I know. Clearly they don't ever watch Man U Chelsea or Arsenal play  : Idiots. You don't ask you don't get eh!

Anyone use Wiki much?

If so read the article on Diving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving#Famous_Divers

The words "smooth entry" come to mind

Whatever happened to that thread? Or is that on a need-to-know basis?