Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [29th December 2012 - 2nd January 2013]

Awesome, really glad to see Kagawa back in the team after such a long time out. I like De Gea anyway. He makes some stunning saves so I can forgive him the odd clanger. If we lose the league I might change my mind....

RvP will be ready to come on to save the day if we need it.
 
Chong Warrior said:
If I was AVB I'd sub him and sell him for that miss. Why did he take the extra touch, just smash it in ffs!
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Chong Warrior said:
The number of chances our strikers miss is criminal, we really do need some quality. If we had RVP we'd be top of the League.
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Rubbish, complete rubbish, RVP has missed plenty of great chances this season, as has Messi, Ronaldo, Falcao, etc, etc.

There is a humoungous difference between scoring 10 goals and having 1-2 horrendous misses and scoring 2 and having 10 horrendous misses, guess which category Defoe fits into, along with most other strikers in the league and the world?
 
Hopefully Parker on will solidify the centre a bit alongside Sandro and we should be too bad. Bale should now run riot across the midfield to make up for the Lennon absence.
 
Azza said:
Technically its not a dive because there was contact, but it's obvious gamesmanship.
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Contact doesn't mean he has to go down, he could have easily stayed on his feet and got a shot off. Instead he exaggerates the contact and gets booked.

MW
 
So its a foul then ?

A fair amount of players could stay on their feet but choose to go down.

I don't like to see it but it happens every weekend.

It was a definate foul
 
I know that's why I said it's gamesmanship, rather than a dive. A dive in my eyes is when there is zero contact at all.
 
Tom84 said:
Defensively that looks stronger, I wonder where the goals will come from though

EDIT: Best part of that team news is that De Gea starts though
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Boooooo RvP on bench, hes my dream team captain.

Can't see Welbeck/Kagawa doing that well though I guess they need a chance to show what they can do.
 
Mr-White said:
He's turning into a Suarez where his quality is being shadowed by his gamesmanship.

MW
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In this case it was a dive, but I think at least two of his other yellows have been for fouls on him, IE they weren't dives. His reputation is starting to turn against him mostly from poor decisions. Difference is Suarez cheats all game long every game, he never once has kept quite and not harrassed the referee over almost every decision every single game since he joined. He's also dived almost every game since he joined, as always everything is measured in degree's, is someone who dives once as bad as someone who dives every game, are two players as bad as each other if they both dive 5 times a season, but one is a mouthy git who also tries to injure players throughout the season, complains about every decision and is a genuine grade A **** on the pitch every second, when the other guy does 5 dives and nothing else at all?

Suarez is the most prolific diver, the most prolific complainer, he consistently attempts to injure players and aside from just diving he also tries to create fouls more than any other player. You know the running up to a player grabbing his shirt, diving and pulling the player down on top of you trying to make it look like a foul. He is the most "complete" cheat the premier league has. Even if Bale was guilty of all the dives he's been carded for(he isn't, some though were dives), he still isn't everything else that Suarez is.

Suarez made Suarez a target not poor refereeing(good ref's would send him off almost every single game for dissent alone, let alone his intentional injury attempting fouls), Bale has been the victim of poor ref's as much as his own dives(50/50 probably).
 
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