Manchester United Thread

[abigsmurf]

Smurf, seriously. We've all seen the idiot clutching his face when someone looked at him funny. Give it up! You don't see any of us saying Ronaldo doesn't dive do you? So why take the Chelski hardline stance that Drogba is not a cheating bastard. For my money, he's far worse than Ronaldo.

Without a fraction of the talent

I have to admit, Ronaldo does have skill when it comes to rolling around, drogba could never beat him on that.

[saif]

Just show the other players kicking out, elbowing, stamping and spitting and not getting punished for it.
A lot of hypotheticals, IF Lampard or Gerrard.....
Drogba dives, as does Gerrard - I don't like that at all and have never said otherwise. He does it less than others, about the same as Rooney (both of whom embarassingly say they HATE diving) and by far the most at Liverpool.
Of course the Liverpool and Chelsea fans would be most annoyed about the decisions - everyone should expect it though. Wright-Philips got a ban for retaliation which the ref did not see Ronaldo in this case was not even fouled so it was not retaliation. Players also usually get a red for spitting at opponents.

Nice to see I am one of the usual "haters" - all of these things have been seen loud and bright as you like on TV - I don't even watch SKY extra coverage. This is all on match of the day!

The disallowed goal: nobody saw anything wrong with it except the corner should not have been given. Goal should have stood. Then again, in that game, Ronaldo would have been off (two yellows or a straight red) as would Rafael if the laws of the game were applied. That is irrefutable.

[Matt]

Sorry Saif, it wasn't a corner, it was a freekick! He didn't shepherd the ball out, he took out the man without touch the ball. Was two poor referee decisions there, disallowing the goal being a third.

I think we can all agree:

Ronaldo dived and hopefully Fergy will slap him - best player in the world doesn't need to dive and he hurts his reputation greatly by doing so. It's already cost him numerous penalty decisions this season where he clearly was fouled but didn't get the penalty because of his reputation.

Ronaldo shouldn't have kicked out, but he was getting kicked a little and as we've all played football, we know how annoying that can be. Not saying he was right to do it, just that I understand.

Refs need to get hard on divers. Booking Ronaldo was a good step. Now let's see them book everyone who dives every game. No exceptions. That's the only way to cut that **** out. Far as I'm concerned, the cards should be applied retroactively as well, based on video evidence. However, they should be clear cut cases, like the Ronaldo one. Running at speed it is very easy for a slight touch to send you tumbling.

The Evans header should have been allowed.


It's worth mentioning here that if that goal did count, every single event in the match thereafter would have been different. Therefore we can't say Ronaldo and Rafael should have been sent off after that, because those exact circumstances and incidents wouldn't have been repeated.

Or something like that. I read too much sci-fi

[yesteryeargames]

dogba is far worse a cheat than ronaldo,
1 slight little touch and dogba falls down like he's been sniped in the face, i admit ronaldo does dive now and then, but dogba is a dirty cheat,




that ronaldo vid is funny. above, its not as if germany have ever cheated in the past give him credit where credit is due lol

[Extra Terrestrial]

Ask and ye shall receive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf942-ozlbM the first link I found upon searching. I'd almost forgotten that moment of pure comedy genius between Drogba and Lehmann at the start of the vid.

Either that or the rush of air from the passing player exacerbated his injury.

I have to admit, Ronaldo does have skill when it comes to rolling around, drogba could never beat him on that.

Priceless, absolutely priceless!



And these guys get paid millions to flap about like three year olds?

You never see this kind of ****e in Rugby.

[abigsmurf]

nah in rugby they just stamp on each other's heads when the ref isn't looking...

[glazza]

Bottom line is and i think this is one we can all agree on (Hopefully),none of these over paid ,molly coddled superstar footballers regardless of Nationality or who they play for ect would not last 5 mins playing grass roots football in the local Saturday/Sunday leauges or even in the local 5 a side leages (JJB soccerdome ect) as they would get Twated all over the shop for some of the antics they all get up to...

[NemesiS]

nah in rugby they just stamp on each other's heads when the ref isn't looking...

And i've got the scars to prove it ET....

[fatbatch]

Rooney not starting. Berbatov will have to exert himself tonight ... Hoping for a score draw or better.

[NemesiS]

Dither, dither, dither. If we keep squandering opportunities, we are going to pay

Having said that, Inter have started shocking here.

[ezee ryder]

30 minutes gone and how are we not winning?! We are all over them, got to score soon otherwise we could pay.

[EJG1980]

Blimey Inter have been poor, maybe even The Special One can solve the riddle of getting them to play well in Europe. Surely Inter can't be as bad again in the second half?

[NemesiS]

How many times have we seen United in the Champs League totally outplay the other team only to lose to a sucker goal or just not score.

Inter will come out a different side in the second half. No way can they play that badly for another 45mins.

Failure to take chances has been our bane this season and i reckon it could cost us tonight come the end of the match. We need an away goal.

[ezee ryder]

Blimey Inter have been poor, maybe even The Special One can solve the riddle of getting them to play well in Europe. Surely Inter can't be as bad again in the second half?

I think it also has been a case of us playing really well, Carrick and Fletcher have done really well in the centre of the pitch.

I agree that Inter will probably come out better in the second half and I have the gut feeling we will made to pay for not scoring when on top.

[ShadowDancer]

Luckily Giggs doesn't have a right foot..if he would of flicked that on with his right..he would of been through on goal.

God knows how you're not winning. You've been so fluid..its good watching.