steds
Hall of Fame Member
Fact is pretty much everyone dives and it's pathetic.
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*Official* English Football Season 2006-07
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Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Agreed
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Only a matter of time before Spurs scored off one of those crosses from a very dangerous position, albeit it wasn't because they eventually got the final ball right which would have given someone a virtual tap-in.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Spurs reaping the 'reward' for negative/poor substitutions. 3-3
Barney Rubble
International Coach
What a game. Great tactical work from Mourinho. All guns blazing indeed.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Well done on not reading my post at all.**** off. You can't use one season in Europe as an example of how "brilliant" the Premiership is. Just look at last year, for example..
Firstly, as I said by saying that I've thought this for some time, I'm not basing it on one season. Nor am I saying our teams are brilliant.
My reasoning has nothing to do with skill - it's the style of football played.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
There are plenty I wouldn't classify as "divers".
Loony BoB
International Captain
That doesn't mean they don't dive, though, does it?
Tom Halsey
International Coach
In a large number it does IMO.
Sure, there are a number of wankers who dive (Robben is IMO by far the worst) but I think footballers are over-criticized for diving. When you're running at speed, the slightest touch can send you flying.
There are plenty of things you can criticize the majority of footballers for - IMO diving is not one of them.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Or maybe Lampard & Hargreaves can form the same mid-field partnership that Lamps & Makele has had, it could finally bring out the best in Lampard.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Well said, but looking at the amount of top players that are being attracted towards the premiership rather than La Liga or Serie A, i think the premiership is gradually becoming a better league than La Liga. But i'll wait until the Champions Laeague is over to make final decision.
Last year in the first knockout you had 3 Spanish teams, 3 English teams and 3 Italian teams. In the quarters were 3 Italian, 2 Spanish and 1 English. Semis were 2 spanish, 1 Italian and 1 English. Should we have said conclusively that the Spanish or Italian leagues were much better? Liverpool won in '05 and Man U in '99 but before that you had to go back to Liverpool's win in '84 to find another English team lifting the trophy. Spain's had '06, '02, '00, '98 for example. The Runners Up paints an even more clearer picture.
You can't just say that the English league has been the best for some time (particularly by simply alluding to one season of the Champions League as an example), because it's absolute unsubstantiated bull****.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Well this seasons big clashes across Europe have come to and end. Arsenal have beaten United twice but yet have been below par in the premiership, Madrid seemed to play much better in the two superclassico matches even though they have again had a disappointing season. While Inter have beaten AC Milan twice & are strolling towards the Serie A crowd.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
No it's not, I can see us going out to Middlesbrough for starters tbh.
Replay was a fairly ideal result for me.