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Integrity pays the penalty as they fall over themselves in the box
I SAID in August that this would happen, that another team would do something far worse in the diving stakes than Eduardo.
At the time, we heard saintly supporters of every club – including high and mighty Liverpool – vilifying the Arsenal striker for winning a penalty against Celtic.
Well, right-backatcha Liverpool fans. And I’m particularly talking about the po-faced ones who insist that Steven Gerrard has never hurled himself to the ground.
Such a fine player – a player too good to not have a championship medal in the bag after all these years, but hey, that’s Liverpool – I’ve never understood why Gerrard does that. Do you?
On Monday night, it was a different offender. Liverpool were so desperate to avoid a home defeat against Birmingham City, only escaping that embarrassment thanks to David Ngog’s Klinsmannic low-level flying, which won a dubioso spot-kick. It was a far more manipulative, far more premeditated leap than the Eduardo case.
So let’s hear it Liverpool fans.
All of yous (NB: that’s how you say you in the plural up there) who told us what a cheat Eduardo was. Write in and tell us how David Ngog’s was different.
We are all owed an explanation.
I WONDER what Darren Bent’s twitter could have said about his shameful dive on Saturday, perhaps: “Woke up this morning and I’d completely forgotten how to jump. I might just throw myself headlong across the penalty box this afternoon.”
No doubt numerous friends responded in concerned agreement. Like Liverpool’s David Ngog, who might have twittered: “Strange, I fall over in the box when we were losing too. Maybe we’ve got the same problem.”
I think a doctor would diagnose the condition as a complete lack of integrity. Bent can throw himself all over the turf, but it was going to take a lot more to unsettle a Spurs side that still managed to grind out an unconfident victory.
Arsenal, in comparison, keep scoring goals.
It’s only a matter of time, however, before they stop scoring and the own-goals stop flying in too. On Saturday Wolves presented a masterclass in defensive gaffs, how not to play the offside trap and how to conjure up an own-goal out of nothing. A veritable goldmine for any Match of the Day pundit.
After a short international break Spurs will get back to their relentless title challenge (if Liverpool have one, so do we). Steadily driving towards our goal of Champions League football at the MansionPokerOnline@SevenSistersStadium or something catchy like that. |
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