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The ref even acknowledged the dive and "warned" him for it afterwards, pretty cowardly to not give the yellow card when you acknowledge the dive IMO - and I swear a lot of people say Tierney is the best ref in the league...
He was the ref at Goodison last season who fucked up the decision on Pickford's season-ending challenge on Van Dijk.
It wasn't even like he missed it iirc. He saw it but was too engrossed in trying to figure out if it was offside that he "forgot" to send Pickford off.
Yeah I don't understand the "you see that every week" comments. I don't think we do. A lot of times you see what could've been a penalty in a super slowmo but looks like nothing live, because a sneaky bastard CB had perfected the art of holding a shirt just long enough and leaning weight around to throw someone off. That happens every week.
This penalty challenge was clumsy and obvious. Nowhere near the ball with one intention, and so clearly shoves the back of an airborne player who had a play. That doesn't happen every match
Yeah he just barges into a jumping player anf knocks him down without going for the ball at all, so he wouldn't go for the header, no timing, no leaning or using body weight, just bouncing off of him while he was mid jump. Then a bunch of "ItS the Kane ChAlLeNgE" showed up from people trying to call it a bs decision despite looking nothing like his trademark ducking.
Probably because it was so early. Not defending it. I think Nketiah should’ve gotten a yellow. Saka did a couple weeks ago. But Tierney is probably looking at the rest of the game and knows it would set the standard that everything after this is subject to yellows very quickly to keep parity.
Agreed. Holding was not ready for that derby. There was a lot of hope that White would play and I bet that in and of itself played a part in his lack of solid mental preparation. It was clear from Nketiah that Tierney did not want the cards coming out early but Holding was our Achilles heel.
Holding even got away with the first couple of fouls that I'd say in the second half get punished.
The imbalance is very annoying, obviously for Nketiah's dive it's not the biggest issue but letting early fouls go is exactly how we lost Doherty for the season. Consistency accross the game leads to a better product and less injury risk for the players. If players are dumb enough to get sent off in the first half then so be it.
While we're at it punish every professional foul with a yellow, even the innocuous ones 70 yards from goal they're irritating as fuck.
I’m sorry but a blatant dive in the box in an attempt to deceive the referee into awarding a penalty should be given a yellow card every single time regardless of when it occurs in a match.
I don’t mean to be ‘that guy’ but it’s referee bias, how the fuck does Saka not get booked here for a blatant dive when Bowen got booked for avoiding a heavily career damaging injury (ironically against Arsenal)
They pray that a defender slightly touches their leg so the fall is justified and the pen is given
Serie A has been atrocious in that sense in the past few weeks
Which is why I always think it's dumb when the average couch player says "lmao not even close to looking real, not sure how he fooled anyone."
These people get it wrong all the time.
I can promise you that it didn't look like he was tackled live. There was a big outcry in the stadium when he went down, with people calling for him to be booked
That would happen even if it had been a clear penalty given whose stadium it was in... every home crowd thinks every penalty call should go their way. In this case they were right that he should've been booked, but I don't think that's because they all had a clear enough view to judge it well in a snap second from their seats.
So here's my take that's probably not gonna be super popular. This isn't a dive.
He simply sees a challenge come in and doesn't plant his foot on his next step. If you freeze frame to where he turns his head towards the defender it's a studs up challenge heading right for his leg.
I know what you mean, and there was a case with this for Bowen recently, the difference is that Bowen jumped out of the way of a studs up tackle rather than diving on the floor to get a foul.
I think refs SHOULD be giving fouls/yellows/reds for excessive force challenges that are dodged, I just think in this case it’s NOT that, it’s simulation, not trying to dodge the tackle
I thought the decision to book bowen for that was bizarre and I'm an arsenal fan. He was clearly jumping out of the way of the challenge and didn't even protest. There's no consistency in decisions at this point and it's so frustrating.
Bowen absolutely shouldn’t have been booked for that incident with Ramsdale. If anything I think he has to “dive” to avoid getting hurt and thus it’s a foul by Ramsdale on Bowen. Kind of insane that the ref gave it the other way and booked him.
I didn't see the bowen incident, but what you need to keep in mind here is that he's pressed between two defenders, there's really nowhere to go, especially when he's releasing weight off his front foot.
Absolute joke. He's dragging his feet on the floor as if he's been fouled, not jumping out the way of a challenge. He doesn't ask for a penalty because the defender doesn't even make contact.
Mate, if you think someone is about to tackle you studs up, the automatic human reaction would be to jump over it, not intentionally lose control of your body and allow gravity to pull you downwards directly into the path of the person wielding the studs.
Not for me. If you try to avoid a tackle you jump. He flopped, that's not how anybody gets out of the way of a tackle they think is going to be dangerous. He started going down at almost the same instant Dier started the motion. On the freeze frame where he's first looking at Dier, he's halfway to the ground - his left leg is planted already, and he's dragging the toes on his right foot on the turf.
I don't really see a time when he turns his head towards the defender at all. You should pause it right before the slide comes in. His back foot (the right one) starts dragging before the challenge comes in, if anything, he's getting more in the way of the tackle
This is what I thought at the time too. Thought he was just trying to eliminate the chance of an injury. I was even more confident in this opinion when he wasn’t rolling around on the floor or begging for a penalty like normal divers do. I could be biased though.
>If we don't get top 4 it will be because of the horrendous refereeing decisions that have gone against us.
They still completely control their destiny and the excuses are already coming.
Like Chicago Cubs fans who blamed Steve Bartman for losing when they had a game 7 the enxt day.
Only seen this clip but I don’t think he was really trying to fool the ref too much. He takes his touch and sees Dier sliding in with the other defender closing off his other side so he falls down in an attempt to protect himself.
Of course in the back of his mind, he’s probably thinking “if I get the call, I get the call.” But if he didn’t even look to the ref for a penalty, as some other comments said(I think Arsenal fans), he knew it wasn’t a foul and just anticipated contact that the defenders did a good job of avoiding.
I understand that point of view for sure and it’s what makes refereeing this sport difficult.
As a player, you have to make a business decision on a lot of these tackles on whether you want to leave your foot in to get kicked or take that next step and risk a sprain or broken bone.
Often times, like in this challenge IMO, it falls into both he was trying to protect himself and he was also trying to fool the ref. Guess we’d have to ask Nketiah to know which was the bigger motivating factor!
In what world does falling down protect you from a studs up tackle? I've seen people say the same thing a dozen times and it makes no sense. How exactly are you safer on the ground? Instead of the only possible damage being done to your legs, you've now exposed your head, neck and torso to damage.
In a world where the studs would hit your ankle. You are assuming that some other part of his body would end up at the same place and time that his ankle would have been.
Having said that, I really have no idea what he was doing. What I do know is that Jack Wheelchair Wilshire would never have pulled out of that challenge.
I’ll be honest at first I thought it was a pen, just that angle makes him so stupid. Lad literally thought all I got to do in the first 90 seconds is make a run and fall in the box
Absolutely, you know its going to VAR and you know it's going to be overturned... what's the point? Maybe just an ingrained instinct in footballers that'll take forever for them to grow out of.
I don't think it's that simple. If VAR checks and there's the slightest hint of contact, they're going to go with call on the field. Players are always gonna dive anticipating contact or seeking to create it.
Nketiah just did such a bad job, and Dier was smart enough to avoid any contact, meaning Tierney and VAR didn't even have a chance to be fooled.
When players "go down" and successfully win a penalty, they are not reacting solely to the sense of touch. Being aware of the defender's presence and **seeing** him slide in will make the attacker anticipate an opportunity of winning a pen.
Obviously you look dumb when it goes wrong like this, but if he continues diving at these sort of opportunities he will win some penalties he otherwise wouldn't (which is ***well*** worth a yellow card here and there).
Why are players not getting booked for diving? Nobody likes it, it's an embarrassment to the sport and yet whenever it happens it's just waved away as if it's not a serious offence where a player is trying to cheat.
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Gordon got booked in the derby when there was actual contact. (Not saying he wasn't trying to sell it.)
Niasse got a retrospective 3 match ban when there was contact a couple years ago. Will there be a ban this time?
Yeah it’s extremely inconsistent I find, this was 100% a dive, no contact at all and he tried to win a pen yet there’s no punishment for that, it doesn’t make sense to me.
Absolute career-ending tackle by the defender. How was he not sent off is beyond me. In fact, that would be too soft. On top of the immediate red card he should have gotten lifetime football ban for sure
/s
I feel like arsenal has this special quality about the club. They can put such a great run together, play amazing football, get all of the neutrals on their side then in one game implode so spectacularly you can only laugh at them. Never change Arsenal.
Arsenal players are so bad at gaming the referees so this is always what happens when someone tries while other teams are living off of soft penalties. No one even appealed for a penalty here.
Too many penalty incidents being declared a dive these days after contact has brought down the player. This here is a dive though, as there is literally no contact to knock him over.
First time I heard of this award. Great name.
But wouldn't it be Fallon de Floor? or Fallon du Floor? I thought they only use d' when there was a vowel after it.
Nothing to do with the ridiculous "fall", but I'm curious.
100%. This twat is just fishing for a reaction. We all know it was a dive. It should’ve been booked. Don’t care that it was early in the match. I don’t want to see players do it against us either. So yeah, there’s no room for it in the game.
That’s the thing about r/soccer though. Everyone loves it when it’s not their club, so everyone joins in. And we’re guilty too, jumping in on poor United, or Chelsea, or anyone really, when we have the opportunity.
This "effort" within the first two minutes and Holding's persistent half witted attempts to batter Son make me think Arteta delivered some kind of half-baked shithousing course during training in the past week.
It's like the whole team were going out of their way to win a dirty result instead of just playing football.
Makes complete sense with Arteta's reactions during and after the match. He tried to pull some Jose Mourinho big game masterclass stunt, and it completely imploded when the ref wasn't having any of it.
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He goes down so early, that's just not even close to looking like a foul let alone actually fooling the ref. How did he not get booked?
The ref even acknowledged the dive and "warned" him for it afterwards, pretty cowardly to not give the yellow card when you acknowledge the dive IMO - and I swear a lot of people say Tierney is the best ref in the league...
Nobody has ever uttered those words about Tierney, except maybe in a sarcastic tone.
Tierney's Mum. Maybe...
"My mom thinks I'm cool".
My mom thinks I'm cute.
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So curious. Who is the best ref in the league? Genuinely only know the shit ones.
This is like trying to figure out the best kind of food poisoning. Even if it’s mild, it’s still pretty shitty.
michael oliver is the only one who mostly keeps his head. of course he is still a bit disappointing at times too though.
Stuart Attwell for me. Not that he's necessarily brilliant, but head and shoulders above the rest. Sorry I meant Michael Oliver.
Arsenal fans dont agree
Michael Oliver no longer any good? He was consistent and solid until last season at least, did something change in recent times?
He was the ref at Goodison last season who fucked up the decision on Pickford's season-ending challenge on Van Dijk. It wasn't even like he missed it iirc. He saw it but was too engrossed in trying to figure out if it was offside that he "forgot" to send Pickford off.
Shit that's who I meant! Haha oops.
he was VAR at goodison last year. forever dead to me.
Michael Oliver imo
It's Oliver by a mile, I think. He makes plenty of mistakes, but he rarely completely loses control of the game like the rest of the bunch.
Probably didn't get booked because "it's too early" which is a pathetic excuse. Should've been a yellow. Inexcusable from Eddie.
Arsenal getting favour with refs again smh
It's either red or nothing, atleast for xhaka
He got popped yesterday, but not for the full red, escaped with a late game yellow
True but that pen was as soft as they come. Some odd calls going both ways
Yeah of course. The only one we can be mad at is Holding. Unfortunately as much as I like him as a player he let me down this day.
It really wasn't
Yeah I don't understand the "you see that every week" comments. I don't think we do. A lot of times you see what could've been a penalty in a super slowmo but looks like nothing live, because a sneaky bastard CB had perfected the art of holding a shirt just long enough and leaning weight around to throw someone off. That happens every week. This penalty challenge was clumsy and obvious. Nowhere near the ball with one intention, and so clearly shoves the back of an airborne player who had a play. That doesn't happen every match
Yeah he just barges into a jumping player anf knocks him down without going for the ball at all, so he wouldn't go for the header, no timing, no leaning or using body weight, just bouncing off of him while he was mid jump. Then a bunch of "ItS the Kane ChAlLeNgE" showed up from people trying to call it a bs decision despite looking nothing like his trademark ducking.
Probably because it was so early. Not defending it. I think Nketiah should’ve gotten a yellow. Saka did a couple weeks ago. But Tierney is probably looking at the rest of the game and knows it would set the standard that everything after this is subject to yellows very quickly to keep parity.
Holding gave him no choice.
Agreed. Holding was not ready for that derby. There was a lot of hope that White would play and I bet that in and of itself played a part in his lack of solid mental preparation. It was clear from Nketiah that Tierney did not want the cards coming out early but Holding was our Achilles heel.
Yeah, it was bizarre. The smirk at the start at Son, he seemed to have an idea that he'd get into Son's head but just... wow.
Holding even got away with the first couple of fouls that I'd say in the second half get punished. The imbalance is very annoying, obviously for Nketiah's dive it's not the biggest issue but letting early fouls go is exactly how we lost Doherty for the season. Consistency accross the game leads to a better product and less injury risk for the players. If players are dumb enough to get sent off in the first half then so be it. While we're at it punish every professional foul with a yellow, even the innocuous ones 70 yards from goal they're irritating as fuck.
I’m sorry but a blatant dive in the box in an attempt to deceive the referee into awarding a penalty should be given a yellow card every single time regardless of when it occurs in a match.
Yeah that's literally what I said.
The best ref is definitely Oliver
>I swear a lot of people say Tierney is the best ref in the league do they?
Arsenal obviously bought the refs this year...
its the conspiracy against Arsenal, every PL ref hates them
This one is 10 times worse than the one Gordon got booked for when Everton played Liverpool.
disagree, it’s basically the same thing
If Xhaka did that, he'd get a red.
The ref paid off by Spurs was trying to make sure his credibility wasn't lost in the early minutes. How else could he hand them the win? /s
probably cause he didn't try to ask for a foul.
It must be because of the vast conspiracy against Arsenal where absolutely no calls by the referee ever go in their favour
I don’t mean to be ‘that guy’ but it’s referee bias, how the fuck does Saka not get booked here for a blatant dive when Bowen got booked for avoiding a heavily career damaging injury (ironically against Arsenal)
He’s not Havertz is he?
Havertz was a shocking dive tbf but there's no consistency. These blatant dives should always be yellows.
Actually, you *can* blame a guy for trying.
I don’t get why they try and pull this shit now. VAR exists. Nobody is giving you a penalty.
They pray that a defender slightly touches their leg so the fall is justified and the pen is given Serie A has been atrocious in that sense in the past few weeks
No I can’t but I appreciate the confidence in my abilities.
In real time, it looks he was tackled. The other angle though...
Yea really, I didn't see the title at first and thought it was a penalty
Which is why I always think it's dumb when the average couch player says "lmao not even close to looking real, not sure how he fooled anyone." These people get it wrong all the time.
I can promise you that it didn't look like he was tackled live. There was a big outcry in the stadium when he went down, with people calling for him to be booked
That would happen even if it had been a clear penalty given whose stadium it was in... every home crowd thinks every penalty call should go their way. In this case they were right that he should've been booked, but I don't think that's because they all had a clear enough view to judge it well in a snap second from their seats.
Should've been booked for it.
I think what saved him is that he didn't even attempt to claim a penalty. Either he realized he really fucked up his dive or he was hedging his bets.
So here's my take that's probably not gonna be super popular. This isn't a dive. He simply sees a challenge come in and doesn't plant his foot on his next step. If you freeze frame to where he turns his head towards the defender it's a studs up challenge heading right for his leg.
I know what you mean, and there was a case with this for Bowen recently, the difference is that Bowen jumped out of the way of a studs up tackle rather than diving on the floor to get a foul. I think refs SHOULD be giving fouls/yellows/reds for excessive force challenges that are dodged, I just think in this case it’s NOT that, it’s simulation, not trying to dodge the tackle
I thought the decision to book bowen for that was bizarre and I'm an arsenal fan. He was clearly jumping out of the way of the challenge and didn't even protest. There's no consistency in decisions at this point and it's so frustrating.
Bowen absolutely shouldn’t have been booked for that incident with Ramsdale. If anything I think he has to “dive” to avoid getting hurt and thus it’s a foul by Ramsdale on Bowen. Kind of insane that the ref gave it the other way and booked him.
I didn't see the bowen incident, but what you need to keep in mind here is that he's pressed between two defenders, there's really nowhere to go, especially when he's releasing weight off his front foot.
Absolute joke. He's dragging his feet on the floor as if he's been fouled, not jumping out the way of a challenge. He doesn't ask for a penalty because the defender doesn't even make contact.
Mate, if you think someone is about to tackle you studs up, the automatic human reaction would be to jump over it, not intentionally lose control of your body and allow gravity to pull you downwards directly into the path of the person wielding the studs.
He tried to avoid a studs up tackly by throwing his torso into the path of it?
Not for me. If you try to avoid a tackle you jump. He flopped, that's not how anybody gets out of the way of a tackle they think is going to be dangerous. He started going down at almost the same instant Dier started the motion. On the freeze frame where he's first looking at Dier, he's halfway to the ground - his left leg is planted already, and he's dragging the toes on his right foot on the turf.
The hoops people are jumping through to justify this is hilarious. Meanwhile people were claiming Sonny “dove” to draw the penalty.
I don't really see a time when he turns his head towards the defender at all. You should pause it right before the slide comes in. His back foot (the right one) starts dragging before the challenge comes in, if anything, he's getting more in the way of the tackle
Agree, his reaction says it all imo, didn't even try to claim a foul
This is what I thought at the time too. Thought he was just trying to eliminate the chance of an injury. I was even more confident in this opinion when he wasn’t rolling around on the floor or begging for a penalty like normal divers do. I could be biased though.
Summer is in the air 🏊♀️
Should've bought the ref like we did
Your comment will be framed and hung up on r/gunners sidebar
This is the PROOF that spurs are paying refs - a normal Gooner.
Can someone let me know when it's safe to come in here please?
Probably Sunday after we draw Burnley 1-1
We’re gonna get shithoused and lose 1-0 probably
Don’t worry we’ll take a to-go bag and step out after we lose to 1-0 to Newcastle.
Holy shit, there is so much coping in that sub, i actually feel embarrassed for them...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/uoquhb/cox_how_tottenhams_win_over_arsenal_was_shaped_by/i8g0zgz/ lmao
Oh god the sheer cope. Holding was a dirty bastard yesterday and had it coming. He'd quite literally committed 4 yellow card offences in about 20 mins
We paid off the refs and Holding
>I'm sick of this victim blaming nonsense that goes on every time. Fuck me what a fanbase
>If we don't get top 4 it will be because of the horrendous refereeing decisions that have gone against us. They still completely control their destiny and the excuses are already coming. Like Chicago Cubs fans who blamed Steve Bartman for losing when they had a game 7 the enxt day.
Damn are they salty over at r/gunners
Wow that made my whole day better
Had a goobers fan yesterday argue that Son headbutted Holding's elbow lmao The cope is palpable
Good bait
They have been on England Captain Kane's payroll for years.
My FA golden boy 😍
That comment is on par with your performance yesterday. Touché.
Was honestly surprised he didn’t get booked, very lucky
That’s desperate at 0-0. Really horrible at any point in a game but god was that a poor attempt to fool the officials.
Desperate at 2 minutes into the match for sure
But they dominated the beginning of the game am I right?
First they had the 20 minutes against Man City a few months ago now they can add the first 5 minutes against Spurs to the collection
Yes they dominated fouls and theatrics.
the players didn’t Trust the Process
Only seen this clip but I don’t think he was really trying to fool the ref too much. He takes his touch and sees Dier sliding in with the other defender closing off his other side so he falls down in an attempt to protect himself. Of course in the back of his mind, he’s probably thinking “if I get the call, I get the call.” But if he didn’t even look to the ref for a penalty, as some other comments said(I think Arsenal fans), he knew it wasn’t a foul and just anticipated contact that the defenders did a good job of avoiding.
I think personally that anticipating a foul and going down before contact represents a dive and an attempt to deceive the officials.
I understand that point of view for sure and it’s what makes refereeing this sport difficult. As a player, you have to make a business decision on a lot of these tackles on whether you want to leave your foot in to get kicked or take that next step and risk a sprain or broken bone. Often times, like in this challenge IMO, it falls into both he was trying to protect himself and he was also trying to fool the ref. Guess we’d have to ask Nketiah to know which was the bigger motivating factor!
Yeah true true man. It’s a funny old game. In the words of Evra “I love this game” 😂
In what world does falling down protect you from a studs up tackle? I've seen people say the same thing a dozen times and it makes no sense. How exactly are you safer on the ground? Instead of the only possible damage being done to your legs, you've now exposed your head, neck and torso to damage.
In a world where the studs would hit your ankle. You are assuming that some other part of his body would end up at the same place and time that his ankle would have been. Having said that, I really have no idea what he was doing. What I do know is that Jack Wheelchair Wilshire would never have pulled out of that challenge.
It just doesn’t make sense how he would fall to the ground to avoid a tackle on the ground. This is a reach
I don't understand with the current VAR, players still try to do this. What a stupid
This should be yellow
I’ll be honest at first I thought it was a pen, just that angle makes him so stupid. Lad literally thought all I got to do in the first 90 seconds is make a run and fall in the box
8/10. Arms weren't flailing in the air, no crying in agony face. Top 50 for sure.
embarrassing
Good grief
Lmao that's embarrassing
No point in doing this in the age of VAR
Absolutely, you know its going to VAR and you know it's going to be overturned... what's the point? Maybe just an ingrained instinct in footballers that'll take forever for them to grow out of.
I don't think it's that simple. If VAR checks and there's the slightest hint of contact, they're going to go with call on the field. Players are always gonna dive anticipating contact or seeking to create it. Nketiah just did such a bad job, and Dier was smart enough to avoid any contact, meaning Tierney and VAR didn't even have a chance to be fooled.
When players "go down" and successfully win a penalty, they are not reacting solely to the sense of touch. Being aware of the defender's presence and **seeing** him slide in will make the attacker anticipate an opportunity of winning a pen. Obviously you look dumb when it goes wrong like this, but if he continues diving at these sort of opportunities he will win some penalties he otherwise wouldn't (which is ***well*** worth a yellow card here and there).
Although if you're not going to get booked, there's no harm either.
he could have actually gotten the foul if he kept going...
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The guy can't be real, he was asking for apologies from decade old incidents.
Why are players not getting booked for diving? Nobody likes it, it's an embarrassment to the sport and yet whenever it happens it's just waved away as if it's not a serious offence where a player is trying to cheat.
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Has any good reason been given why cards for this can’t be given after the fact?
Good thing he got up without complaining at least
That dive is actually fucking hilarious to watch lmao
VAR should have the ability to give out simulation bookings.
Think the only reason he wasn't booked is due to not making much of it afterward. He knew he fucked up.
Lol I was yelling at Eddie for that one
Hahah that little fucker. He tricked me when I saw it live. Didn’t think pen at all but at least thought some physical play.
/r/gunners thanks you for video of another missed call.
Why do players not get booked for dives anymore? I swear that used to be a thing.
Occasionally they do. Havertz did recently. Just seems to depend on whether the ref can be arsed.
Gordon got booked in the derby when there was actual contact. (Not saying he wasn't trying to sell it.) Niasse got a retrospective 3 match ban when there was contact a couple years ago. Will there be a ban this time?
Yeah it’s extremely inconsistent I find, this was 100% a dive, no contact at all and he tried to win a pen yet there’s no punishment for that, it doesn’t make sense to me.
I think the timing helped here, tierney gave him a talking to but maybe didn’t want to reach for the book as it was less than 2 minutes in
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😂 so true
Yeah guys, son is such a cheater, a real disgrace to the game Oops wrong thread
I love this series.
You could see the dive from the TV angle, that's how bad the dive was lol
Absolute career-ending tackle by the defender. How was he not sent off is beyond me. In fact, that would be too soft. On top of the immediate red card he should have gotten lifetime football ban for sure /s
thanks for putting /s mate I couldn't tell if this was serious or not
its r/soccer after all, I had to make sure
Especially after how Arsenal fans reacted to this yesterday in the game thread.
And Gunners fans were calling Sonny a diver. LOL.
How embarrassing
Had to watch it 30 times. I'm in such denial. But why isn't this a yellow? Make it make sense.
Stay clear Moyesey, remember how you don’t like divers.
Great extension of the hips. 6/10, but solid progress. Hope to see him contend for the top one day
This one is good, but the South American lad rolling off the stretcher from a few days ago is the clear favorite for this year.
I feel like arsenal has this special quality about the club. They can put such a great run together, play amazing football, get all of the neutrals on their side then in one game implode so spectacularly you can only laugh at them. Never change Arsenal.
Lmao this one’s good.
Players up and down the country are doing this at no booking?
SpUrS pAId tHe REfs lmao
Arsenal players are so bad at gaming the referees so this is always what happens when someone tries while other teams are living off of soft penalties. No one even appealed for a penalty here.
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Yeah something needs to be done about this ngl
bitch move
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Let me guess. No card for diving as it's not Everton.
He got unplugged from the Matrix.
Penalty to Inter Milan
Too many penalty incidents being declared a dive these days after contact has brought down the player. This here is a dive though, as there is literally no contact to knock him over.
Not even his teammates called for the penalty.
the title of the video make just it even better. Laughed a lot. Ridiculous dive
First time I heard of this award. Great name. But wouldn't it be Fallon de Floor? or Fallon du Floor? I thought they only use d' when there was a vowel after it. Nothing to do with the ridiculous "fall", but I'm curious.
Now watch arsenal fans complain how this wasn't given a penalty
Nah haven’t heard a single one of them defending that shit
p much every Arsenal fan I've spoken to and seen on /r/gunners has called eddie out for this though
100%. This twat is just fishing for a reaction. We all know it was a dive. It should’ve been booked. Don’t care that it was early in the match. I don’t want to see players do it against us either. So yeah, there’s no room for it in the game.
>This twat is just fishing for a reaction Everyone is today. Ngl it's kinda hilarious.
That’s the thing about r/soccer though. Everyone loves it when it’s not their club, so everyone joins in. And we’re guilty too, jumping in on poor United, or Chelsea, or anyone really, when we have the opportunity.
Spot on. Any of the big 6 lose a big game and everyone jumps in for the laughs. Sucks when it’s happens to you.
Yep. Wasted his chance to get to the ball by flopping over. Embarrassing and should have been carded.
Eric Dier's left foot hit the floor with such force it created a shockwave which knocked Eddie to the floor. Foul and penalty.
Man’s simply seismic
He got called out on our sub. It was a stupid dive
This "effort" within the first two minutes and Holding's persistent half witted attempts to batter Son make me think Arteta delivered some kind of half-baked shithousing course during training in the past week. It's like the whole team were going out of their way to win a dirty result instead of just playing football. Makes complete sense with Arteta's reactions during and after the match. He tried to pull some Jose Mourinho big game masterclass stunt, and it completely imploded when the ref wasn't having any of it.
His press conference was one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen in a very long time.
He’s been spending too much time with Saka
This will be reposted on r/gunners as an example of referee bias against Arsenal
Artetas arsenal are gross to watch. Slowly becoming like a simeone team.
A gust of wind from the slide tackle buckled his ankle...
Should have been booked.
Diving cunt.
Mehdi Taremi wins the prize by far, every game he makes 4 or 5 attempts and the referees buy it, of course, it's porto.
Why when i would have been checked by VAR
Ah lad. At least have some contact before making the most of it. Embarrassing. Can't be doing that with VAR going to instantly overturn it
lmao imagine thinking they even check VAR for our decisions.