Comments on: Damned Foreign Divers

By: Pedro P

Pedro P — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:31:44 +0000

Watching a few games from the “premiership” and some others from “calcio” should answer you quite easily, Jareed… English don’t usually dive and in England the adversary is cheered when playing better. This is fair play. At least, this is what I believe to be true and also what I’ve seen so far. I’m not an expert and I didn’t see it all.

However, I find english too fond of the above mentioned stereotype (at least the ones I know), as for them if a player falls, if that player is south european, than it’s immediatelly a dive.

By: jareed

jareed — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:37:52 +0000

thats just plain nonsense. what has a players nationality got to do with his propensity to dive?

By: Bense

Bense — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:02:44 +0000

In general, I’d say the english players are playing more “cleanly”.

But that diving statistic could be backed up by the fact that attacking players dive far more than defending players. There are many more foreign attacking players in the EPL than defending ones, so that should make those kinda statistics quite useless.

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