Comments on: Blatant N’Gog Dive Rescues Liverpool, Angers Birmingham

By: eplmatches

eplmatches — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:01:55 +0000

this diving shud be punished even after the match, thats the only solution i cud find.

This uy shud be banned for 5 games as a warning to all divers!

By: Jorge Curioso

Jorge Curioso — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:14:25 +0000

I challenge all the one-eyed Liverpudlians to find one single instance where Cristiano Ronaldo dove even remotely as cheatingly as Ngog.

There was always contact when Cristiano went to ground.

Unlike, say, Slip-N-Fall Stevie Me.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:27:51 +0000

I’m not a Birmingham fan but when that penalty was awarded my can of soda pop promptly went flying across the room into the door going everywhere. It was an outrage. I actually called that with no one in the rooom.

As soon as Gerrard came on I thought in the back of my head “He’s gonna go for a swim and steal this from the Brum.”

Unfortunately, I didn’t get it completely right. N’Gog went for the swim.

Can we blame him though? A few theories:

#1: N’Gog knew from the several balls he failed to connect with from Gerrard that we’d say he’s not up to the task. He’s not a big four, world-beating, forward. So he knews that’s the only way he’d be able to save the point.

#2: Peter Walton really can’t officiate and just assumed there was contact
“Assume” being the bad word. We try not to use that word in our house since nothing is predictable

One final note: Did anyone notice how long it took the idiot in black to award the penalty?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:11:09 +0000

Were you watching a different game? Liverpool did not “thrash” anybody”.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:46:43 +0000

The only excuse I have is what I said above. Contact would have occurred and he would have awarded a fair penalty.

So why not just stay on your ‘effing feet and let the contact come! Crusty got it right above – he should have just kept playing the ball and let the contact come (like Bent did).

A lot of people point to other players that may be perceived as divers but what they do is totally different (apart from Ronaldo – he was and always will be the quintessential diver). You know contact is coming and when it does you let it be seen that it impeded your run. This is not the same as throwing your body to the ground without any contact at all.

The worst part is that he was looking so good in the first half. He even got a goal that Torres would be proud of.

I gave one excuse above but, to be honest, there is no excuse for it. It’s a disgrace when any player does it – makes it even worse when it’s your boys.

By: b

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:08:14 +0000

i have checked the interwebs, and it appears you are correct. blast!

now as to whether they “deserved” or “merited” three points, i’m still on “no.”

to badly paraphrase one wiser than me “do or do not, there is no merited.”

By: oliver

oliver — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:34:37 +0000

thanks for the clarification

By: SeminoleGunner

SeminoleGunner — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:52:45 +0000

Arshavin appeared to do that against Portsmouth last season. I was never quite sure what he was signaling.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:15:50 +0000

I think you’ll find they scored 2 real goals. Check out the BBC, Daily Mail, Telegraph websites, FA records, Birmingham City website, they all say LFC scored 2 goals. Check out the league table, they got a point

By: coachie ballgames

coachie ballgames — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:34:34 +0000

thanks b.
Eric, you are right, Liverpool dominated play in the second half, but they only scored one real goal. Sunderland played wonderfully against Tottenham Saturday, often dominating that game, but walked off with no points.