Robin van Persie has today admitted to exaggerating his reaction to contact with an opposing player. He can’t understand why a chorus of ‘Same old Arsenal, always cheating’ was heard after he chose to go to ground after a ‘really little push’ from Patrice Evra.
“Yes, I did,” Van Persie replied, when asked had he ever exaggerated a fall. “Sometimes when you are in the middle of an action and you get a little push and you know there’s nothing more to take. Then you are in the right to show in a way to the ref that you are pushed. That’s not really diving. It’s just showing . . . ‘Come on, he just pushed me, so I can’t score now.’ You sometimes have a little movement with your arms or with your body, but I don’t think that’s really cheating. It’s never my intention to dive, anyway. It is a bit tricky I have to say because I am against divers. It is just not honest. But it is difficult because, sometimes, like I had a little moment against Manchester United. For example, after the whole Eduardo thing, when I had the ball on the right side and I cut it back. Evra gave me a little push – a really little one – but it sort of outbalanced me. I just fell down and the whole stadium started to boo me. I was, like, ‘Come on, can’t you see he pushed me?’ Some people don’t see these little pushes and they can give you a whole different picture to what the situation really is.”
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come on robin, go home to mummy and cry… or you should play in spain or italy…
“Yes, I did,” Van Persie replied, when asked had he ever exaggerated a fall
makes for a nice read on the republik of mancunia and maybe some papers on the 5th from last page
if it was the white pele it would be scrolling along the bottom of sky news screen in a yellow bar with outraged people on the screen talking about how Rooney shouldnt be allowed go to the world cup.
Fucking soft cunt. A dive is a dive however you try to dress it up Robin. Has Wenger been telling you to say that?
“if it was the white pele it would be scrolling along the bottom of sky news screen in a yellow bar with outraged people on the screen talking about how Rooney shouldnt be allowed go to the world cup”.
Bang on gotta hate tt.
And since these “tiny little pushes” are considered putting pressure on the man, considered normal defending, he will not be getting any sympathy with that pantomime excuse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Ymx5httE0&
stick on soccer am
the soccerett looks just like torres
dont blame him too much.it is something everyone does now a days.there is no honesty in football today.everyone thinks of how it can benefit their team and i think thats perfectly right
At least he’s being honest.. every single player in the world does this, so respect to the guy for saying it. It is better than people who claim they never dive – no such player exists!
Besides if you don’t fall when you are touched, the dumb ref will just wave play to continue – there is no reward for trying to stay on your feet. That’s just the way it is, so players don’t really have a choice
Robin you turd, it’s a mans game, if you can’t take a little push then you’re in the wrong sport, plus, you give as good as you get, imagine if Adebayor didn’t move out the way when you lunged at him, you’d've broke his leg.
“But why did fans boo when I fell?”
Because your team is full of cheating cunts, you too.
ghtt, they have to be nice to Rooney. After all, it’s England’s years!
Not to worry. You can be assured that those YouTube clips will lay dormant until after England are eliminated in South Africa. The vitriol can then be unleashed.
@Tony Starks
Morning mate. “At least hes being honest”
He is being “honest” about being dishonest. That is hardly a redeeming feature.
Same old Arsenal always cheating – but they are alright because they admitted to cheating?
Fuck him – cheating bastard.
Read Carefully – However we want to spin this, I don’t think its ‘dishonest’ in this context if you fall after being fouled, that’s the only way these crap refs will notice the foul. What he’s trying to say is that if you don’t show the ref you have been fouled you don’t get the free kick.
Sadly that’s how it is now. Defenders try to cheat by fouling the player in ways the referee can’t easily see, every one is cheating in their own way, so you have to fight your corner.
Remember our penalty vs. Arsenal? If Rooney didn’t fall like that he would not have got a penalty – it was a clear foul but Rooney made sure the ref saw it. That is all van Percy is saying, regardless of what you think of him
@Tony Starks
I take your point but is it not fair to assume that it is a genuine foul if it brings you down and if it does not bring you down then it was just a tough challenge ?
If you are touched on the leg and deliberately fall to the ground when you did not need is that a dive or are you just making sure that the ref sees that you were touched? Contact is initself not a foul if the contact is severe enough to bring you down then it is a foul.
If we can distinguish between ball to hand and handball then we should be able to distinguish between contact being made and a player being fouled.
I’m not sure whether he know how to play football. Little push doesn’t makes you go unbalance. It requires a lot of strength to have push you on to the ground. I suggest he should work out more on his footwork, balance and mentality.
Moany cunt rvp but brillant player.
So the lesson from Van Persie is it’s bad to dive, but it’s okay if you just do it a little bit?
I agree with williw, the guy is cunt but he can play.
All divers are wankers and refs should stamp it out
@READ CAREFULLY WHAT I Said
I don’t think it says anywhere in the rules that a foul is soley defined by how hard you hit the opposing player. Just looking at the explanation for direct free kicks, from Fifa’s laws of the game, shows that Van Persie is actually right in thinking pushing is an offence. Note that using excessive force is only one of the criteria by which a free kick may be given
A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any
of the following seven offences in a manner considered by the referee to be
careless, reckless or using excessive force:
• kicks or attempts to kick an opponent
• trips or attempts to trip an opponent
• jumps at an opponent
• charges an opponent
• strikes or attempts to strike an opponent
• pushes an opponent
• tackles an opponent
Or commits (one of) the following offenses:
* Holding an opponent
* Spitting at an opponent
* Handling the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area).
There is of course a simular explanation for indirect free kicks of which the following are relevant to an outfield player;
When any player in the opinion of the referee:
* plays in a dangerous manner
* impedes the progress of an opponent
* prevents the goalkeeper from releasing the ball from his hands
* commits any other offense, not previously mentioned in Law 12, for which play is stopped to caution or dismiss a player.
I think the seious debate should centre on whether it is acceptacble to exaggerate the effects of an offence rather than risk the referee missing it?
In all sports there are techniques and tatics taught to players that are designed to ‘transgress’ the line that the rules try and draw. Of course defenders will try and impose themselves on an attacker and will give him little nudges or kicks when he has the chance. Is it right that this should remain hidden from the officials where possible and just be accepted as part of the game, or is it legitimate for a player to highlight these incidents, which are by definition foul play?
It’s quite a hard question and that is why we have so many incidents that create strong feeling on both sides. My own feeling is that we just have to accept a lot of it as bringing some interest and passion to the game. I think we already have the solution of punishing players heavily if it is clearly obvious the opposing player has not been careless or reckless in a genuine attempt to defend and yet the player goes down.
I think the Eduardo incident is exactly where I am coming from. Every replay and angle showed the goalkeeper trying to do the correct thing. There did not appear to be any contact and the player wasn’t forced to jump over any trailing arms or legs that may have impeded or injured him.
The goalkeeper made obvious attempts to remove any unfair impedement to Eduardo’s progress and yet the player chose to go down in a manner very clearly designed to indicate there had been unfair contact. It might be he thought the contact was coming, but that is where the softness and cowardice part of other contributors comments to this thread really does kick in and is entirely valid.
So I am letting Persie off this one. I don’t like seeing exaggeration, especially when it seems tha aim is to get another player a card. The other side though is the constant niggling fouls, shirt pullings, pushes, jumping all over players, holding a player, all things we see every week and that often are aimed at preventing a chance on goal. Is it fair that these should be missed and just written off as acceptable contact in a man’s game?