For years we’ve been talking about what a diver Steven Gerrard is. Liverpool fans tend to turn a blind eye, pretending that their captain is like what the song says, “fucking hard”. To acknowledge that he actually dived and cheated like someone who learnt to play the game on the continent would be a tad embarrassing. So like they pretend he didn’t hand in transfer requests to leave his “beloved club” for Chelsea, they pretend he doesn’t dive.
Now, whenever a Liverpool fan hears the “Gerrard is a diver” argument from a United fan, they immediately go “Yeh, but what about Ronaldo?”. Granted, Ronaldo is a soft lad who goes to ground far too easily. He doesn’t dive like he used to but we’re not blind, we can see he does it on occasion, and we don’t like it.
However, Ronaldo is a poncy Portuguese lad, who plays the game with every single hair in place, who wears short shorts, who whips off his shirt for the ladies whenever given the opportunity, and who generally irritates the shit out of football fans, United’s included. Why the fuck would Liverpool fans want to compare their captain to fucking Ronaldo?
Jokes are made repeatedly about Ronaldo’s diving. I remember watching Match of the Day last season with that big-eared cunt talking about the sprinkler system at Old Trafford. “Maybe it’s so Ronaldo can practice his dives?” Lineker mused. Chortle, chortle.
How about this country recognises what a diver Gerrard is? Big and fucking hard? There are girls in the playground who fall over less easily than him! Gerrard is a diver.
In their victory over Chelsea this evening, Gerrard was booked by Mike Riley for a shameful dive outside the penalty area. Considering that Gerrard should have already been on a yellow card for a poor tackle followed by shouting at the referee (apparently the ‘Respect the Ref’ campaign doesn’t apply to Stevie Me), that dive should have seen him given his marching orders.
The game that was tipped as ‘must win’ by both sides ended in Liverpool’s favour, Fernando Torres bailing out his team once more. Whilst many Liverpool fans will be ecstatic this evening, talking up their title challenge again following a few weeks of depression of draw after draw, today’s result only papered over the cracks. They were at home, they played against ten men for half an hour (with arguably Chelsea’s best player sent off on the hour mark) and still could only break the deadlock with two minutes left to play.
A draw would have been the best result for us, but essentially, the cards are still all in our hands. We have the easier fixtures, we’re two points clear despite playing a game less, and have a better goal difference.
It would take a very brave man to bet against United making it three in a row this season, particularly when looking at who the competition for our crown is!
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It was a hilarious dive it had me laughing out loud, superman stevie meeeeeeeee is the worst diver ive ever seen atleast make them convincing lad!
anyway chelsea have shown what a poor team they are this season they lost 3-0 against us and now 2-0 against liverpool i hate the scousers so im not happy they won but it was a joy to see john ‘tiny tears’ terry having a hissy fit at the end bet he’s shed some tears (again) in the dressing room.
Riley should be hanged!!! for a moment i almost wanted the rentboys to win! cant wait for the dippers to come to OT!
We will hammer the Vermin at Old Trafford.
They were mediocre but were spared by the fact that Chelsea were even worse. Why was Stevie Me not sent off after 2 minutes for a Delap-esque kicking of the ball against Bosingwa?
Gerrard should never have been on the pitch to do his usual triple pipe with belly flop!!
Delap got sent off for simular yesterday for kicking the ball against a player on the floor as well as a tackle he done with his foot over the top !! Gerrard never even got a card, Rilley changed that game completely !! He Rilley felt guilty for his his dive so gave him a card for that instead, Gerrard is a fuckin cock who gets away with murder and assault !!
I dont understand the commentators as well. They clearly chose not to speak about Stevie PEE diving blatantly.. If that would have been Ronaldo everyone knows what would have happened.
Fucking disgraceful blatant dive by the cheating cunt that is Stevie Me. Not just him but Alonso went down clutching his ankle to get Fat Frank sent off.
We are now going to have to endure dippers fans and the media alike saying how Liverpool can win the league and it could still be their season and so on . How excited was Martin Tyler? Neither team look a threat in my opinion. They managed to beat a ten men poor performance Chelski .We are seeing probably the worst Rentboys performances recently for 5 years or so. Can’t see them recovering properly after yet another poor result. They seem to have lost any passion, creativity and resolve they once had for a year or two. they have absolutely no width and no plan b.
As long as we win our game in hand we are still 5 points clear. At least it might make it a bit more interesting.
Did anyone else hear the chavs attempting to sing “Rafa’s crackin’ up”? Whats that all about?
Second-best result; a draw would have been better. Despite getting the victory, the real match-decider was Mike Riley – his red card to Lampard was a joke, especially after he turned a blind-eye to StevieMeee’s act of violence in the third minute which was surely deserving of yellow, at least.
Assuming a win for TheLads over Fulham with the game in hand, the RedScouse have to win at Old Trafford to have any chance of getting back into contention. That seems a big, big ask.
Some random observations:
Dirk Kuyt is utterly without guile or skill;
Ca$hleyHole was again woeful on the ball, miscontrol gave away the second goal;
Petr Cech looks like a shadow of his former self;
The RentBoyz midfield was pussy-footed and without any invention whatsoever;
LiverPoo will continue with these “brave efforts” but still won’t reach 80 points although that may be enough to be second this year, considering how regressive the other three of the former BigFour have been; and,
can a major implosion be far away from Stamford Bridge ?
Credit due the pool played a lot better. Stevie did dive, so there you go admitted
Benyoun changed the game. Torres did what torres does
I am the bitter apparently, well it seems Evertonians aren’t the only ones who see that tw@ for what he really is.
However………..
Riley is to blame, how he still has a whistle is beyond me. He is the homer to end all homers, and he is the same at OT, so you can stick that in your republic pipe and smoke it.
after watching them play today i can really say we deserve to be on top of the league.
looserfool where poor and chelsea looked tired and uninspiring. Sir Alex was right saying that chelsea have peaked two seasons ago!
then again, mike riley did them a big favour today.
so where the bloody commentators! for a minute i thought i was watching it on liverpool tv!! muppets!!!
The yellow submarine’s at it again. Dive Dive Dive. Cheating scumbag. God how many players has Alonso got sent off this season is it 5 or 6. Gullit was right it was a foul by Alonso on fat frank. Alonso should come with a FA health warning. Don’t go near the cheating scouse bastard he will get you sent of.
Wonder what Facts Rafat Beneathus has to say about this match?
There were two reprehensible decisions by Mike Reilly today (among many). The first was the appalling way he let Gerrard get away with the incident in the third minute. The second was the sending off. Lampard clearly got the ball, while the Liverpool player (was it Alonso?) gave Frank a good kick in the calf muscle and then went for a nice swan dive over him – he should have been the one carded for giving Lampard a painful kick. Gerrard should have been off in the third minute, or at the very least when he finally and belatedly received what should have been a third or fourth yellow for his pathetic dive. Liverpool have nothing to crow about, particularly when it should have been their team, not Chelsea, struggling along one man down.
Mike Reilly determined the outcome today, not Liverpool. One of the worst performances I’ve seen a professional ref put in – up there with the World cup game between Australia and Croatia, when the ref allowed a Croatian player to play on with two yellow cards, and finally sent him off for a third yellow!
Why are we so worried about those scousers diving? we’ve got Ronaldo, (pu)Nani and berba- all of who dive week in week out. We ought to sort these out first- glass houses and all.
Didn’t Fat Frank break Alonso’s ankle a few seasons ago- with a similar tackle?
Fan of Rebublik of Mancuntia
Ha Ha…such lousy uneducated comments…how you can say we leave it to the last minute against 10 men and see your bunch of girls get a ‘prolific’ win with a last minute penalty against the toffee men just qualifies your statement appropriately….you don’t know what you’re talking about! Remember, it took you 26 YEARS to win a title! 26 YEARS of jack shit and STILL you’re behind us in the number of TITLES WON! Chew on that stat for a while and perhaps you could spend the week thinking about posting a comment that can be really comprehended!
@timbo:
that was howard webb.
oh well we still have 2-points lead and a game in hand.
Gerrard was lucky to stay on the pitch, even before his dive. I can understand that Chelsea are disappointed with the ref, but Liverpool were the better team and deserved to win.
Hi all, firstly I’m a LFC fan in Dublin….Now just hear me out first before slagging me off!!
Totally agree with Gerrard diving….wtf?? My thinking , Gerrard, Ronaldo etc. are too good to be doing this!! They are class acts so they should let their football do the “diving”. I thought the rent boys were piss poor to be honest,
Also, have to hand to your defence!! Well done lads F U C K I N class!! I know Im a scouser supporter but love to see great football, and although I hope we win the premiership, I think it’s Utd’s to loose at this stage!!
Anyway, just opinion from scouser in Dublin who saw the website on news now!
i didn’t really mind liverpool winning…as i am sure they are going to draw more games!!!!…now all the pool fans will start saying that they’re right back in the title race and all but i won’t be surprised if pool end up drawing again next weekend!!!
Didn’t see or hear the game….Cunts versus Wankers…. but is it true that Limpard got sent off for telling Gerrard that when he gets out of nick his arsehole is gonna be as big as the referees mouth..???
Chelsea are our main rivals and have a far stronger squad than the bin dippers… so it’s better that Liverpool won!
Let’s see how the papers react to an English and non United player diving… pure silence is my prediction!
Rooney v Villareal? Arsenal when he threw one in against Campbell?
So me a favour son
Yes Gerrard did dive, and yes he does dive. So what? Ronaldo spends 60% of his playing time on his arse crying with that whinging face he does lookin for free kicks. He dives the way Gerrad did today 4 or 5 times in EVERY single game and thats a FACT.
Poor Dipper supporters, they still believe in Santa Claus!! Back to earth in a week!!
“Steven Gerrard was the one player today who had CLASS written all over them”
Alvin Martin 6.25pm
Does this CLASS include the horrible tackle and ridiculous dive (s)?
Steve “Mr MASSIVE FUCKING HYPOCRITE” Gerrard doesn’t dive. Nope.
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Makes you wonder how such dopey cunts get to be pundits, dont it…. And correct if I’m wrong but did Alvin Martin try to become manager and failed miserably…??? The stupid stupid gobby cunt… Almost as bad as Collimore the bird bashing carpark wanker
Mmm Yes, Liverpool weren’t great, the ref was appalling and handed the game to them, and yes there’s lots of confirmation of what we’ve known about Gerrard (forget all this ‘Stevie’ shit) for ages, but Fergie is right, the title isn’t won yet. This result will rejuvenate Liverpool and more importantly , their fans.It was very bad news yesterday to see so many United supporters leaving before the end. What’s that about? Complacency? Arrogance? Have people not seen last minute goals save undeserved points? It didn’t happen yesterday for Everton, but it will soon if United keep easing off in the second half as they seem to be doing too often. Fans should not be leaving early, sending the message that it’s all done and dusted, they should be making a hell of a racket all through, right to the end.Make OT the proverbial cauldron, make the opposition frightened to death and urge on the lads. We’re going to need that this year, but it won’t happen if everyone just piles on the bravado about how shit Liverpool are. The other thing, it’s wonderful to break records and the defence deserve all the plaudits they are getting, especially Van the Man. But endless 1-0s to United is not the United way. This year, with this squad we should be burying teams a lot more often. The lack of urgency may be OK when we’re doing ‘just enough’, but it’s a very dangerous habit to get into.
What a disgraceful performance by the referee. Fuck the respect campaign. They are bunch of incompetent morons who deserve no respect. Gerrerd was always a diver and Rooney is a maniac on the filed. I don’t blame any particular player anymore, but I blame the media and referees who leave their fucking English players to get away with murder every day. I say we shouldn’t care about other club’s players. I honestly don’t care about them, but every time Rooney goes into his rage mode, I have a heart attack. I know some people will ask WTF I am talking about Rooney, but I think we shouldn’t be hypocrites and bash our rivals, when we have similar type of a problem in our squad.
eightiesskoola – we can talk about it because we beat the 11 men of Chelsea 3-0 at home.
We didn’t beat Everton with a “last minute” penalty, but we did beat them. How did you get on in your two games against them again?
thank you Scott ) the manner of this text was so funny. ) i haven’t laughed that much for a long time ))
Gerard is a diver. An it’s a fact.
Alex f -”Fan of Rebublik of Mancuntia” Very Funny. Get fucked!
Alex F (No relation)
What’s with the ‘t’ in your Mancunia? Sort it out.
‘oh well we still have 2-points lead and a game in hand.’
And a team that looks like winning the title. Both ‘Pool and Chelsea are out of it. Certainly not this year and probably not next either.
Has anyone considered what ‘Pool and Chelsea have in common?
Both will have new managers next season.
Both have poor squads with no money to spend on new players.
Both are up for sale with owners wanting far more than the clubs are worth.
And finally both have deluded fans – fans who can’t see the writing is on the wall for both clubs. Fans who won’t admit it’ll be a long time till their teams win the EPL again. Fans who’ve got their heads up their anuses.
If there’s any ‘Pool fans on here who thinks that SG doesn’t dive then have a look at this ‘Pool site and read the comments and supporting videos of the ‘master in action’. The author even believes that ‘Pool cheated their way to victory over AC Milan in the CL final in Istanbul:
http://www.liverpool-kop.com/2008/04/rafa-slams-drogba-for-diving-but-steven.html
I’d ‘love it’ if SG got red-carded at OT for diving. Wonder if the bookies will take bets on it?
Tom F : think Alex F is taking the piss!
Is it me or did they completely choose not to show gerrard’s dive on match of the day? did i miss it? such a joke.
Does anyone feel that Frank’s red was not a red? While his foot was high it seemed Xabi Alonsa did some diving of his own and could have got a nice card for himself. I thought the ref was in a bad position to see the entire play and see the actual contact take place. Spot on Scot, spot on about SG. His tendency to anger was clear for all to see. It is easier to say foreign players are at fault but it seems to me English players are all about diving when it is possible. Maybe not as much as other nationalities but seems to happen evenly throughout the Prem.
Redboyo
Of course they didn’t. They only show things that are favourable to their arguments of Liverpool being amazing. They didn’t show Ronaldo scoring a perfectly good goal being disallowed for offside earlier in the season(forget who it was against) . They really need to stop Hanson wanking himself silly live on air.
Oh and all the Liverpool fans talking about Rooney and Ronaldo, is that what this discussion is about? No it’s about the thug so try not to lose focus.
Liam : It was against Rentboys, he had 2 disallowed.
Mike Reily was blinded when he gave Lampard red card which should be given rightly to Alonso for his dangerous tackle. The tv proved it clearly and Mike Reily should see it again and again. Steven Gerard dangerous sliding tackle earlier should be red carded but Mike Reily just talk to him without and punishment. After all Mike Reily did help Liv to win over 10 men Chelsea after past 90mins. What has Rafa got to say this time .
I work for the Performing Rights Society, where I get sent different places to recognise the music so the songwriters get paid their royalties.
A few weeks ago I got sent to Butlins in minehead. But in their wisdom the PRS sent me three hours early.
Rather than hang about the site paying a fortune for a pint, I decided to stroll into Mineheasd town centre.
On my way I passed Blockbusters and decide to pop in to waste some time.
Whilst browsing the shelves I came across a video entitled “Liverpool The Glory Years”.
As my friend Terry supports them I decided to buy it him for a present.
I approached the counter and ask the spotty youth the price.
“£115″ he said.
“Bloody hell” I replied, “That’s a bit steep isn’t it?”
“Well” he said, “It’s £15 for the tape, and a £100 for the Betamax recorder”
Eighteesskoola said that we are still one championship behind Liverpool Iwould like to remind himthat had it not been the tragedy of Munich we would have totally dominated European football for years and would have been comfortably Englands most successful Club;something even Shankly admitted
gerrard’s is a free willy.
Gerreard dives and gets booked
Ronaldo dives the other player gets book, and Ronaldo wins a free kick..hmm
Gerrard dived but at least the were actually people near him..
Bollocks to the dippers, I am glad they won yesterday, that result will do nothing for the chelski confidence and they are still our biggest threat. It also means the team beneath us has a much worse goal average and should they get too close they have still got to play us at O.T. Not only that but the fat spanish waiter will start thinking he is doing well and fuck it up with more and more bizzare decisions. Leave the dippers to walk round with a little bulge in their shell suit bottoms ‘cos little do they know they just handed us the title!