Ashley Young's dive is good for City

[beano46]

Diving is the first thing on the training agenda with them scummy bunch of toss bags

 

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[the blue panther]

Don't know if this has been done as I've come in on page 9, but, just to say how heart warming it is to know that we can all look forward to seeing the cheating diving non-entity pulling his tripe out for England at Euro 2012.

Never mind Tom Daly and his partner - put Ashley Young and Steven Gerard in the olympic diving team and they'll take some beating.

 

[Carstairs]

Don't know if this has been done as I've come in on page 9, but, just to say how heart warming it is to know that we can all look forward to seeing the cheating diving non-entity pulling his tripe out for England at Euro 2012.

Never mind Tom Daly and his partner - put Ashley Young and Steven Gerard in the olympic diving team and they'll take some beating.

With the players likely to be selected for England this summer I have no intention of watching them at all.

Been let down too many times, and I don't want to be embarrassed by my national side again.

 

[T_Bone]

Ashley Young is the biggest diver there is. What a twat!

EDIT: I fucking hate that little scrawny fucker. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the game. The cheating, diving ****. You get them people in life that you just want to hit in the face. I couldn't do that to him, because he makes me physically sick when I look at him. He got Micah booked at their ground in October. Fucking nob. I'd never tire of pulling his legs out of his sockets.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Ashley Young is the biggest diver there is. What a twat!

EDIT: I fucking hate that little scrawny fucker. He is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the game. The cheating, diving ****. You get them people in life that you just want to hit in the face. I couldn't do that to him, because he makes me physically sick when I look at him. He got Micah booked at their ground in October. Fucking nob. I'd never tire of pulling his legs out of his sockets.

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[Dirty Harry]

I sincerely hope that if/when England go out of Euro 2112 then it's down to theatrics similar to this, I'm certain we'll then see many of the media/pundits/managers etc totally change their tune towards it and we'll see them for the hypocrits they are.

 

[Matty]

If you think Ashley Young won't do the same thing at some point in the derby, and the ref won't give a penalty for it, then you're sadly mistaken. We have to give him absolutely no opportunity to run at us in the box, he'll hit the deck when the breeze changes, and whoever is refereeing it (my money's on Howard Webb) will be pointing to the spot before he's hit the floor.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Last weekend he did it, and I am sure that was a factor in Wigan escaping 2 good penalty shouts at the DW.

He's done it again in a game they were always going to win which means next time Utd have a penalty shout there's going to be a moment's doubt in the ref's mind, and that's all it takes.

Could be crucial now as Utd's remaining games are likely to be tight affairs: Everton, City, Swansea and Sunderland.

Refs aren't cheats. They are humans who are conned, and they watch the TV like the rest of us.

I'm not sure they watch the TV. Did Foy sit in front of the TV on Saturday, see Tevez's foot trapped under the defender's boot, did he watch for the arm and shove on Aguero, and mutter an 'Oh, dear'? Don't think so, 'cos if they did they would have their heads full of mistakes the minute they blew the whistle for the start of a match.

I did a bit of reffing in my youth(!) and was always galvanised by that bit in the laws of the game where it said the ref was the 'sole arbiter of fact', so it wasn't a goal kick it was a corner 'cos the ref said it was - argument might have followed but no replays. Now we see within nano-seconds that the ref has buggered it up, been conned by some diving cheat, and a title sails down the road when the quality of football, played according to the laws and spirit of the game on another pitch, gets nowt! It's a dreadful state of affairs made even worse when something tangible and concrete could be done to eradicate the cheats from the game and enhance the quality of refereeing decisions.

 

[Burtonblue]

Introducing retrospective suspensions for repeat cheats like Young is the only way to stop this.
As a previous poster said this already happens in the A league. The FA could learn a lot from the ozzies. As usual they have applied a common sense approach to the problem and should be applauded for it.