Topic: Didier Drogba

[gregor]

I'd hate it myself.

I get a lot of stick for my dislike of Gerrard - but a lot of that (Chelsea fiasco aside) is that he was a disgraceful cheat - a total horrible diver for a lot of his career. Why try and use skill when you can dive like a girl?

I'd guess from the grief I got of labelling him a cheating piece of shite on many an occasion that a lot of people on here would 'turn a blind eye to it' - like they did with Gerrard. But I'd hate it.

If I agreed that Suarez was as big a diver as made out (He isn't) then I'd want him out of the club - Downing is a bigger diver than Suarez.


Hate diving. I'd be made up if every diver got a ten game ban. Hate it. Absolutely hate it.

Andy - at least you're honest. You don't like Gerrard and you know he dives. Some people on here have ridiculous double standards on this though.

[Carlos: Very Kickable]

Sorry - theres a big difference between what Suarez and Drogba does and it infuriates me that even some of our own supporters dont see it.

Suarez is a physically courageous player who goes down when he takes the impact from an onrushing defender. He actually DOES get knocked around a fair bit because his unusual style means its hard for defenders to anticipate what he is going to do. Im not denying he makes the most out of those impacts but the fact is - most of the time - he has been hit hard enough to be caught off balance and deserves a free kick. That is NOT simulation.

Players that HAVENT been hit that hard and go down ARE guilty of simulation - for example Ashley Young. That is plain cheating. And I've seen Liverpool players doing it in the past too. even English ones like Michael Owen and, yes, our present captain.

What Drogba does, fantastic player though he is, is even worse. he rolls about feigning he has a serious injury - as a poster above said flopping about like a fish out of water - to stop play. That is DESPICABLE - especially after the Muamba incident. Its like someone calling in sick to work saying "ive got cancer" then strolling in the next day saying "nah only joking" and then repeating that again and again. And more importantly it might mean players who ARE genuinely injured have a slower medical response because the referee now thinks he's diving.

I dont give a **** what he achieves in football - your fiirst duty is to achieve acting and living like a man.

Rant over

[Roger Federer]

Some of ours dive constantly as well.

Dive, yes, but like I said a page back, I haven't seen anyone behave like Drogba, laying still on the floor, kicking with his leg and pretend to be seriously injured. And it's not once in a while, Drogba does it 10 times a game. It's a shame, because I really do think he's a brilliant footballer who even though he plays for Chelsea, I probably would appreciate a whole lot, if he weren't such a c*nt. And he is (on the pitch, I have no idea what he's like off it).

I may have missed it, but please name the occasion when our players behaved like Drogba the other night or on that clip above. It would be truly embarrassing if they have and I think behavior like that is the worst thing about football today. It wouldn't be ok if some of our own did it, and Drogba's actions aren't either just because Busquets and a few other Barcelona players do similar things (and vice versa).

[Rohit]

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When you seen one of ours do this? You know the whole peeking to see if the ref bought the dive.

[Red Beret]

What I will never understand is why refs repeatedly let stuff like this slide.  I mean they must be briefed on the teams and the potential problem players and check videos of previous examples.  If players stayed on their feet in the first place all this 'bias' accusations would become moot.

[SenorGarcia]

Haha, you're insane.

How exactly, by feeling he is completely over the top in his cheating and takes it to an embarrassing level.
Where exactly do you draw the line on cheating?

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When you seen one of ours do this? You know the whole peeking to see if the ref bought the dive.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. "It's a disgrace."  as Drogba would say.

[BlackpoolRock]

So what? It's supposed to be about football - not about grown men acting like tiny little crybabies.

It's always gone on though, most people go on like it's a new thing.

Here's Emlyn Hughes doing a Drogba - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtYEJSEtAg

[sinnermichael]

"did nothing wrong" according to di matteo.

no wonder this will never get stamped out of the game.

[Red Crown]

"did nothing wrong" according to di matteo.

no wonder this will never get stamped out of the game.

From Di Matteo's point of view, he didn't.  He got under Barca's skin, unsettled them, broke up their rhythm and tempo and scored a goal.  When you're so hopelessly outclassed by the opposition, this is the home run of performances.

[Strummer77]

I get a lot of stick for my dislike of Gerrard - but a lot of that (Chelsea fiasco aside) is that he was a disgraceful cheat - a total horrible diver for a lot of his career. Why try and use skill when you can dive like a girl?

You get stick because you come out with over the top rubbish like this. He wasn't a "a disgraceful cheat - a total horrible diver for a lot of his career". He dived a bit. Went down a bit easy occasionally. He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Drogba. We've had worse (than Gerrard, not Drogba).

[Andy @ Allerton]

You get stick because you come out with over the top rubbish like this. He wasn't a "a disgraceful cheat - a total horrible diver for a lot of his career". He dived a bit. Went down a bit easy occasionally. He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Drogba. We've had worse (than Gerrard, not Drogba).

He wasn't as bad as Drogba no. But people like Drogba, Beckham, Ronaldo, Nani, Young, Sholes and Nistelrooy are in a league of their own.


But he was an embarrasing cheat on more than one occasion. I would love to have defended him when people were slagging him off for diving - but it was as clear as day. I absolutely hate diving. Hate it. Worst thing in football IMO.

[crasher1in]

Fucking hell ! alot of plastic chelsea fans coming out of from under their rocks after the barca game. Hope these fuckers get twatted at nou camp

[tonysleft]

He wasn't as bad as Drogba no. But people like Drogba, Beckham, Ronaldo, Nani, Young, Sholes and Nistelrooy are in a league of their own.


But he was an embarrasing cheat on more than one occasion. I would love to have defended him when people were slagging him off for diving - but it was as clear as day. I absolutely hate diving. Hate it. Worst thing in football IMO.

I'll give you Young, I thought he was a diver before he joined us and I'll happily hold my hands up and admit he's a diver here too. The rest however, especially Scholes, are debatable. Seriously Scholes a diver? I would compare Nani to Suarez in that there are a few cases for both of clear dives but also for the most part it's merely an exaggerated fall with a decent deal of contact in there. Beckham, well, off the top of my head I can only think of the dive vs Chelsea in our 3-0 loss where Tiago scored that belter. Am I missing some? Please post em up instead of just naming them if I am! RVN I'll give to you because he certainly was a bit of a simulator in his first season with us, it sort of slowly went down from there. Was still noticeable though.

[Suarez 7]

I'd hate it myself.

I get a lot of stick for my dislike of Gerrard - but a lot of that (Chelsea fiasco aside) is that he was a disgraceful cheat - a total horrible diver for a lot of his career. Why try and use skill when you can dive like a girl?

I'd guess from the grief I got of labelling him a cheating piece of shite on many an occasion that a lot of people on here would 'turn a blind eye to it' - like they did with Gerrard. But I'd hate it.

If I agreed that Suarez was as big a diver as made out (He isn't) then I'd want him out of the club - Downing is a bigger diver than Suarez.


Hate diving. I'd be made up if every diver got a ten game ban. Hate it. Absolutely hate it.

First off. Wow, just wow.

Second. Chelsea fiasco? By that I am assuming you are talking about when Chelsea offered him a shitload more money and guaranteed titles and he turned them down and decided to stay with Liverpool , and carry them on his back for a few more years.

[Spanish Fan]

[Hyypia headers]

It' s not just the diving, it is the acting that comes with it. Sadly many players, including ours, take a dive from time to time. But you can go down, look at the ref, don't get what want, get up and get on. But Drogba takes it a step further, rolling around, crying out, stopping play every time. If that is considered a tactic to unsettle the opponent, than the game is death and buried in my eyes. How people can accept this is beyond me.

I would hate to see him at Liverpool, hate it.

[kates bush]

It' s not just the diving, it is the acting that comes with it. Sadly many players, including ours, take a dive from time to time. But you can go down, look at the ref, don't get what want, get up and get on. But Drogba takes it a step further, rolling around, crying out, stopping play every time. If that is considered a tactic to unsettle the opponent, than the game is death and buried in my eyes. How people can accept this is beyond me.

I would hate to see him at Liverpool, hate it.

My thoughts exactly, players do go down looking for the advantage but this guy takes it too far.
Although saying that, at least he doesn't dive in the box like Ashley Young, but anyway, Drogba is now a marked man, the realisation that he is a diving c*nt from everyone in the press means the lily livered, yellow bellied bastards who adjudicate Premier League matches will be keeping their squinty double dealing eyes on him.

[SenorGarcia]

My thoughts exactly, players do go down looking for the advantage but this guy takes it too far.
Although saying that, at least he doesn't dive in the box like Ashley Young, but anyway, Drogba is now a marked man, the realisation that he is a diving c*nt from everyone in the press means the lily livered, yellow bellied bastards who adjudicate Premier League matches will be keeping their squinty double dealing eyes on him.

Whilst I agree, the worrying thing is that he's always been like this so I don't refs to treat him any differently.
He's been doing it ever since he joined the league and always been allowed to get away with it.
Would love him to leave the league this summer.

Any fan he seriously supports his behaviour just confuses me. He would frustrate the hell out of me watching a game being broken up every two minutes by one attention seeking fool.

[Coolie High]

He doesn't do it every game though.

[kates bush]

He doesn't do it every game though.

Would you say black was white?

[Hunter Thompson]

One of the moments of the season was when he got sparked out against Norwich. Glad he wasn't seriously hurt, but it was good to see that wolf finally catch up with him.

[sinnermichael]

are my ears deceiving me or did the bbc continuity guy say he's on the graham norton show later? 

[amir87]

Behave yourself tomorrow you c*nt.

[chris18lfc]

are my ears deceiving me or did the bbc continuity guy say he's on the graham norton show later? 

You heard right. 

[sinnermichael]

You heard right. 

surreal. although on channel 4 at the same time is "stand up for the week" so he was hardly going to be on that

[chris18lfc]

surreal. although on channel 4 at the same time is "stand up for the week" so he was hardly going to be on that

 

[sinnermichael]

any time now

[barnseysbarmyarmy]

surreal. although on channel 4 at the same time is "stand up for the week" so he was hardly going to be on that

I see what you did there.

[Gazza-LFC]

He's on at the moment seems a pretty sound bloke to be honest. Still a massive twat on the field mind.

[killer_heels]

He's on at the moment seems a pretty sound bloke to be honest. Still a massive twat of the field mind.

On the field you mean.

[Siannn.]

Coming across well here.

[Crosby Nick]

He's on at the moment seems a pretty sound bloke to be honest. Still a massive twat of the field mind.

Coming across well here.

Switch it off!

[Gazza-LFC]

On the field you mean.

Yeah sorry.

[Libertine]

He's on at the moment seems a pretty sound bloke to be honest. Still a massive twat of the field mind.

indeed. such a shame he's a fucking embarassment on the pitch because he's done some fantastic things for his country and Africa.

[Pendzo]

Yeah coming across so sound at the moment.

[Circa1892]

indeed. such a shame he's a fucking embarassment on the pitch because he's dome some fantastic things for his country and Africa.

Is exactly right, absolutely brilliant guy off the pitch who is desperate to transform his country.

Total c*nt on it though.

I'll respect the guy when he retires, not before.

[GBF]

im amazed that he danced and didnt fall down

[rushyman]

Blokes a decent guy, and a great footballer

Huge cheat but hes not alone. All a bit overblown about him now with the emergence of the entire league of Spain doing what he does and a good 40% of this league doing it

[rusty-la]

"did nothing wrong" according to di matteo.

no wonder this will never get stamped out of the game.

Of course his manager will back him.

But he consistently brings the game into diisrepute, his feigned agony against Barca in the first leg was shameful.

How the FA turn a blind eye to that only they will know.

It could drive a man to support the Germans in a Final.

[Kashinoda]

Blokes a decent guy, and a great footballer

Huge cheat but hes not alone. All a bit overblown about him now with the emergence of the entire league of Spain doing what he does and a good 40% of this league doing it

Is exactly right.

Came across very well tonight, hard to dislike the guy.

Now let's twat these.