“It is only biased supporters that are saying Rooney dived. gerrard may have dived last year but UEFA wernt trying to stop the cheating then.”

At least get your facts straight, this law – article 10 (1c) was introduced by Uefa as a consequence of the furore that followed Rivaldo’s feigning antics when playing for Brazil in the 2002 World Cup.

Whilst it has been enforced only once in the intervening years (during a Scotland international fixture) the law has been applicable during all European fixtures since but not used even remotely evenly.

Article 10 (1c), , exi

However you know deep down eduardo going down wasnt a penalty. You know if a celtic player had done that to us you would be up in arms. Also I wonder if we would’ve got a penalty agaisnt Manure (Fletcher on Arshavin)if eduardo hadnt of dived.

i hadnt heard this before today, but i cant say i’m surprised.

the not paying his taxes bit doesn’t worry me greatly, that in itself doesn’t interfere with his job.

the perjury stuff is interesting because a conviction would surely render him a not ‘a fit and proper person’. what would the FA do then?

Yet again you repeat (i.e. bleating) your conspiratorial defence for abusing an AFC player, without any proof, but didn’t answer my points regarding gamesmanship. How can anyone who has watched or played sport confuse criticism of gamesmanship as conspiratorial?

Sigh.

Case dismissed.

As you said,
“End of.”

I was just returning the favour with regards to your personal insults thing. Im not that far from the N.london area myself and i havnt heard the Yo in a while. And no i’m not blind (personal insult maybe?)

According to the laws of the game of football, and according to those who get paid to interpret them, it was a penalty. Just like Rooney’s last against us.

Fact.

Your opinion is your opinion.
If you have to resort to personal insults to argue your case, go ahead. My sarcasm was not an insulting by the way. ‘Yo’, in N.London is a friendly form of address.

“Eduardo dived” – prove it. Please.

If you are so against diving, why defend Rooney who is a proven ‘diver’ unlike Eduardo. You contradict yourself and you also you didn’t have the grace to comment on the link I provided for you. Don’t worry, I don’t bother trying to reason with the unreasonable.

Slagging off your own players when they haven’t done anything wrong sounds like a whinge if I ever heard one.
Or a tendency towards sado-masochism.

I am not the one bleating on.

I am saying i dont like diving, And i dont like cheating. Eduardo Dived. End of. Eduardo should have accepted the ban. Uefa shouldve stuck to there guns.

Why did UEFA choose to make assholes out of themselves in front of the whole world?

Ask Bilic, who’s no angel, what he made of the whole case.
Did you see or hear Bilic’s immediate reaction to the foul on Eduardo. Clearly, the whole situation stank.

So bringing your bleating back into context relative to the blog topic:
Corruption clearly exists wherever large amounts of money are sloshing around.
Referees in most leagues have been found guilty.
Is England different to the rest of the human race?

The Eduardo case smelled of gamesmanship by the FA and SFA and nothing more serious than that.
Or do you deny that there is any gamesmanship in sport?

The truly ridiculous aspect of this case was that England were clear group leaders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXw7Xk4hk-Q

Beautiful.
Rooney is a master. He did learn from the best.
Someone like Eboue diving is funny because he’s so bad at it.

What was your defence for Rooney again?

On the question from Abhisek just my thoughts: in Italy they discovered referees manipulation, in Germany also. I must say in my country I know the pressure refs get to blow in a certain way to get promotion (from refs from 1970 until now these days).
In some other countrys they had issues like that, so I really think that no country can be sure for the full 100 %.
But to be fair to the countrys mentionned: in Italy and Germany they punished the wrongdoers as it should be even with prison punishments.

Nice investigating article. Nice to see that not only clubs but top managers are also deep into corruption. I know it not so interesting to some and the reason is not Capello. The reason I guess is England.

People dont compare Arsenal and England. But if a similar story with half the truth(we can surely make other half) about SAF would have much fun to read. Else if Capello was coach of some English club.

But seriously Tony can you tell us any story in PL where referees have been manipulated like in Italian league. Even some rumors would make a good read.

Definately not more than 2 weeks ago!

Capello has some likeable traits, but he does love his designer glasses. Bless him.
What does this article have to do with Wenger’s successor? Nothing.

The Good Lord isn’t going anywhere yet.

The fact that the original piece contains exact places and exact dates makes me believe that it is true, but I have no way of checking such data personally.

For example in the summer there was a review of all the clubs that were going bust – the number was quite significant. That was not Arsenal related – except that Arsenal is a club that is making money and keeping its head above water – and the piece highlighted the dangerous waters that clubs as far apart (in league terms) as Chester City and Liverpool have entered.

In this article the sub-text that people have suggested that we bring in a big-name manager – the point being that they are not always the sort of person you might want to do business with.

And, well I guess if the article doesn’t take your fancy, then you stop reading it. Bit like a newspaper I suppose.

I think tomorrow we’ll be back to Arsenal with the Wednesday game predictions and the like – but there’s one more corruption piece ready to roll which contains some startling new revelations about West Ham and Iceland. Again, not really Arsenal, but it reveals the problems of getting into bed with the wrong guy (as it were).

Sorry to those readers who don’t like what I am doing, but, if you look at those little counters on the right, you’ll see that we have consistently risen up the rankings, so I believe there is an audience for this type of meandering writing on things which are not covered elsewhere. And somehow somewhere have some sort of Arsenal link, even if tenuous.

Meanwhile – a first announcement of the fact that Highbury High returns for the League Cup game, and that is totally Arsenal. Subscription details will appear shortly. Also some interesting developments from Arsenal Independent Supporters Assn – more on that anon as well.

Tony