Bale is a shockingly bad diver and I am a Spurs fan. Especially the one from the weekend which was exceptionally bad !!!
Yup, he dives, and he's bad at it, though I still can't remember as many incidents as Suarez by a LONG shot. Also while the "i went down to avoid injury" excuse IS valid in SOME instances, for example I think Eduardo did go down easily because he didn't want his leg to be planted and as soon as he felt contact he just lifted his weight off his legs, I don't think Bale has a lot of reason to do so.
Against some players you'll have someone slide in on you all game long , 5 times fouling you then the 6th time you jump over the incoming tackle.... which he pulls out of, forgiveable. Most of what Bale does isn't forgiveable diving wise, however when you watch Spurs play, does Bale scream at EVERY single decision like a complete a-hole? Does he foul people then go and rant at the ref? Attitude of a player plays a HUGE role on if people put up with behaviour or don't, as does success, this is true of just about everyone. Bale isn't the biggest **** in football so if he did dive as much as Suarez, wouldn't be treated with the same disdain... though lots of people regard him as a diving moron.
Diouff doesn't actually do that much wrong, quantity wise, but when he does something wrong its normally an extreme, same goes for Barton, and both are absolutely hated largely because their attitudes even when they arent' doing things wrong is disgraceful.
Everyone in the Spanish national team for a start.
They really aren't, Busquets dives, not anywhere near as much as Suarez, he also doesn't tend to go down in the penalty box and what most of the Spanish team do is make a meal of it when they are fouled rather than cause contact or flat out dive. Villa, Silva, Xavi, Cesc, Alba, Puyol, Torres(surprisingly), Llorente, Negredo, Navas, and plenty more aren't divers at all, will you find 1-2 dives, sure, same as everyone else, every game, not a chance. Busquets, Iniesta have at times been incredibly bad divers however both have significantly improved over their World cup period diving escapades.
Carl Jenkinson's dive against Chelsea was pretty bad, he's technique is worse than Suarez's!
He must be better than Suarez... he got a freekick for it
It was a really embarrassing dive, all players WILL do that now and then, hopefully he regrets it and doesn't make a habit of it.
This is one of the things people seem to ignore, every single person on earth makes mistakes in the heat of the moment, we constantly react without thinking, sometimes that will be a stupid handball like Henry's, sometimes a stupid dive, sometimes a rash tackle. How we react to our rash decisions determines what kind of person we are. Henry, regretted it, was clearly pee'd off with himself and in no way at all made a habit of cheating.
Suarez handballed it to ruin a home nation progressing in a world cup, did he regret it or say sorry... or did he say he'd do it again given the chance, he's happy and was generally a **** about it.
I even said at the time I give him the benefit of the doubt because I didn't know him well enough then, what he said after it, what he's done since, he doesn't regret cheating, he consistently does it, has a terrible attitude and has exactly no sympathy from me(and he doesn't ask for it... though Liverpool fans constantly bang on about it).
