Articles tagged with "diving"
Oleksandr Kucher Enters The Diving Hall Of Fame
By chris | October 29th, 2009[101 Great Goals] When Dr. Paul Morris laid out the ways and means of diving, giving referees the necessary tools to catch the culprit (failure thus ...
How To Tell A Dive(r)
By chris | September 16th, 2009Ronaldo's head is proportionate but why the hell the big mitts? At least one good thing to come out of the Eduardo fiasco is diving remains ...
Daily Dose: September 15th, 2009.
By chris | September 15th, 2009Stuff to read while you wonder why Rafa is showing off his balls so arrogantly.... Taking your time during penalties making scoring more likely. (British Psychological ...
Soundoff: Football's Greatest Evil.
By chris | September 1st, 2009The topic du jour for the last few days or so has been that despicable act known as diving, after Eduardo's antics brought it to ...
Stumble and Fall: What punishment should Eduardo get?
By Rob | August 29th, 2009First off, hello. I'm Rob and I'll be here to enjoy the weekend with you. You might know me from the ...
Offside Rewind: Uphill Battle
By Daryl | August 28th, 2009Bayern Munich fans spell it out You're saying it wrong! Common footballing mistakes Of which "EPL" is not one Eduardo joins the football diving hall of fame Meet Nathan ...
Daily Dose: August 26th, 2009
By Daryl | August 26th, 2009Stuff to read while you tremble in fear at the thought of facing Palmeiras in their third kit...... "Even men with steel hearts love to see ...
Learning to Dive Like Cristiano Ronaldo
By Daryl | August 13th, 2009The coach of this young girls team either has an excellent sense of humour, or he's indoctrinating a generation of future players with some very ...
The Beginning of the End of Diving in Football?
By Daryl | August 4th, 2009Diving is the scourge of soccer. The ugly pimple on the otherwise beautiful face of football. Mostly because it's cheap. In a game that offer so ...
Weekend Dose 08.02.09
By Laurie | August 2nd, 2009Some news to read as you watch David Beckham try to make LA like him again: Mission statement for MLS: "Winning must be combined with ...
Poll: Is "Embellishment" (or, okay, Diving) Ever All Right?
By Laurie | July 9th, 2009To make this a neutral and non-Sounders-oriented post, here's a clip from World Cup 2006 -- a little interchange between Thierry Henry of my beloved ...
Is MLS's Refereeing Transparency Promoting Diving?
By Laurie | May 7th, 2009It's an excellent, novel idea, and one the rest of the world should adopt: Hold referees accountable for their actions on the pitch. ...
Carmelo Valenica Learns Honesty is Not Always the Best Policy
By Daryl | April 30th, 2009Watching the replay (above) it's pretty obvious that Millonarios striker Carmelo Valenica took a deliberate tumble in the big Colombian derby vs Santa Fe last ...
Tony Pulis Thinks Foreigners Are Divers
By chris | January 20th, 2009One of the best things about football is brilliant quotes are few and far between. Mind-boggling quotes coming as the result of a massive brain ...
Some More Fun Videos to Remember 2008
By Laurie | December 30th, 2008Year-end is the time to give thanks for videos that stay up for an entire year. (As opposed to those taken down by video ...
A Song for Marcelo Saragosa
By Ian Rose | June 28th, 2008For those of you that are either not MLS fans, or were too distracted by the Euros to notice, FC Dallas and the Houston Dynamo ...
The Italian Ronaldo?
By Ale | May 26th, 2008So this is Juventus (on loan at Serie B's A.S. Bari) striker Davide Lanzafame, who's been getting a little press recently for his Ronaldo-esque style. "He ...
Birmingham Result and Diving Drogba
By CSD | April 27th, 2008Sorry for the delayed post, but I really couldn't think of anything to write other than, "it happened like I thought it'd happen." Rafa ...
Benitez the Stalker
By Rob | April 27th, 2008You would think, after 19 matches against Chelsea, Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez would know Wednesday nights opposition very well. Not, apparently well enough. It seems ...
And the Oscar for Best Faked Injury by a Goalkeeper Goes to...
By Laurie | March 11th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kBE8Hny7M&eurl=http://www.thefootie.com/worst-soccer-fake-ever/[/youtube] Some videos need no words. Which is good, because I'm speechless. P.S. The combination of slo-mo + melodramatic music + YouTu
Celtic v. Shakhtar Divetsk ... Now THAT's anti-football
By Ian Rose | November 28th, 2007With all of the talk about Scottish football and "anti-football" (yeah, I know Messi never said it), Celtic faced a team who played real anti-football ...
Great Moments in Soccer Acting
By Bob | October 5th, 2007This week we saw AC Milan keeper Dida show off his theatrical skills. He is not alone in this department, of course. For ...
Adriano Banned Two Games for Diving
By Bob | April 20th, 2007This ought to send ripples throughout Serie A. Inter Milan striker Adriano has been banned for two matches for his theatrics seen in the ...
Adriano Banned, World Chortles With Glee
By Martha | April 20th, 2007The list of suspended players for this weekend's fixtures just came out and, in addition to the expected names of people with too many cards ...
Alberto Gilardino to star in "The Greg Louganis Story"
By Cham | February 22nd, 2007Milan frontman Alberto Gilardino, as reported in The Scotsman, refuted the booking awarded him in Tuesday's UEFA Champions League match. "I was touched and I tried ...
Sean Davis teaches Lee Young-Pyo how to dive
By Bob | February 6th, 2007There was another round in the endless did Cristiano Ronaldo dive or did he not debate this past weekend after the Manchester United winger was ...
Paul Jewell Promotes Drinking and Diving
By Bob | December 5th, 2006Just about every week in the English Premiership there seems to be at least one diving controversy that gets everyone up in arms. This ...
Torquay United to Sack Players for Diving and Cheating
By Bob | November 21st, 2006If you are a fan of a Beautiful Game that doesn't involve diving, theatrics and players writhing on the ground interspersed by the occasional bouts ...
On Diving
By Martha | November 8th, 2006Call me crazy, but I think the issue of diving is much more complicated than the well-muscled American who shouted about pansies while watching the ...
Chelsea v Barcelona SHEVA OUT
By Andy | October 31st, 2006Chelsea flew out from Gatwick on Sunday afternoon for their Group A meeting with Barcelona with a squad that consisted of the following: A Cole, Makelele, ...
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