Robbie Rotten wrote:Problem with diving is, like has been pointed out before by LGJM, when players dive to avoid contact. I can condone it on occasions, like Rooney did with Almunia against Arsenal, he went down early but his going down was totally justified as contact did come and it was obvious something worse would have happened had he kept on running. N'Gog's tonight, I'm not sure, I need to see the replay again and decide.
Why do you need to look at it again, it's a clear dive. Carsely comes in Ngog sees him and dives for a penatly. The simple fact is he isn't jumping out of the way of a tackle or out of the way of Carsley he is simply cheating by diving to gain a penalty.
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:TBH I'm a bit ambivalent over this penalty decision. The Birmingham player deserved to give away the pen. He made a crappy challenge for the ball in an area where he knew he'd give away a pen if he screwed up. It was only Ngog's stupid dive that saved him from giving away a genuine pen. If Ngog had carried on with his run rather than throwing himself to the ground he'd have been clipped anyway.
But he didn't, he saw Carsley coming and he dived to win a penalty when he was never touched. It's dangerous backing this kind of behaviour now because players will do it all the time and will dive to 'avoid' a tackled and a penalty will be given. It was a joke of decision and Ngog should have been booked for diving. There's no way on this earth that it should have been given.
RedTez wrote:Alots been made of the dive by Ngog, but if he didn't jump out of the way he'd have been clattered by Carsley. That was one dreadful tackle and deserved to give away a penalty. In hindsight, Ngog should've took the challenge, but doing so coud've ended in serious injury.
A penalty was the correct decision - it was the only decision!
Deary me, clueless. You quoting direct from the Fergie handbook of Football there?
Why did he not jump out the way of Carsley's tackle? why did he have to go over like a diving olympian? the fact is he didn't jump out the way to avoid Carsley's tackle he dived to cheat to win a penalty because he saw the tackle coming. As I said to LGJM it's dangerous to back this kind of cheating because it will happen all the time.
No one was questioning it when Eduardo went down against Celtic, he was hammered for it. At least he got close to the keeper on that occasion, Ngog was nowhere near Carsley. All of sudden SSN are quoting people from the past saying 'If a leg is dangling out a player is entitled to go over it' well no one said Eduardo was entitled to go over the 'keepers arm and the main problem with that quote is you need to be near the player to go over the leg. Ngog was cheating simple as.
Even Benitez admitted it wasn't a penalty, I think that should tell you it wasn't a penalty
