TBF a tiny touch can also get you put on the sex offenders' register too these days.
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[Football] Grealish
- Thread starter dazzer6666
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TBF a tiny touch can also get you put on the sex offenders' register too these days.
Grealish getting the blame now for us not winning the league
I thought it was Stockdale ( according to some ) 
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- Sep 26, 2008
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Grealish is a good player, but he’s not as effective as he could be due to the flaws in his game.
He slows the game down by taking far too many touches (which did us a favour a couple of times yesterday), and for such a strong player spends so much time trying to buy fouls it’s embarrassing. The dive around the point Barkley got injured yesterday was typical of him and rightly got waved away by the referee.
He is a good player, no question, but he’s overrated in my view and not likeable due to what is effectively cheating by consistently diving under the slightest or no contact.
He slows the game down by taking far too many touches (which did us a favour a couple of times yesterday), and for such a strong player spends so much time trying to buy fouls it’s embarrassing. The dive around the point Barkley got injured yesterday was typical of him and rightly got waved away by the referee.
He is a good player, no question, but he’s overrated in my view and not likeable due to what is effectively cheating by consistently diving under the slightest or no contact.
SIMMO SAYS
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I really don't but into this "looked tired" line, football is his profession and he trains week in week out to play three games a week. Grealish has come through the EFL and is use to a busy schedule in fixtures.
Maybe we just did a good job on him and closed him down quickly.
Is that why he kept needing a lie down every now and then?
Kalimantan Gull
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With great respect that is utter tosh
I don't remember him going down without contact. I can check back on the match video if you can remember when he did dive.
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No one died but I'd say going to a party at the absolute peak of lockdown and then having to mysteriously leave the scene of an accident on the way home from it was quite bad in light of what the country was going through.
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So by that logic if a player touches you and you throw yourself on the floor, that’s not a dive?
cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Decent but flawed player and we won’t really know how good he is until he gets to play in the finals of a major international tournament or against the very top sides in the Champions League. I just find him really irritating, the fact that he is endlessly on his arse, his constant moaning and protesting, his facial expressions, his socks, his Merchant Ivory haircut.. they all have me telling firing abuse at the telly. I am probably being neither fair nor rational but I enjoy a break from being both for 90 minutes.
SIMMO SAYS
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Honestly there is no hope for people like yourself - still, carry on with your love in for
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Kalimantan Gull
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Players go down easily all the time and our teams have been full of them over the years. In my mind of a player is impeded in some way that isn't a fair tackle, then going down is fine. If you're not impeded at all, stay on your feet or it's a dive.
We went in pretty hard and late at times on Grealish yesterday, Bissouma challenge and Lampteys for his second yellow are two that come to mind (although I don't think Lampteys second was malicious and therefore didn't deserve a booking, but was certainly late). We swarmed him at times yet I am struggling to remember a clean fair tackle on him. I think there was a moment early on when he went down a bit too easily, around the time that Barkley was injured, but the rest just waived play on, no foul, I can't recall a foul given on him that I didn't think was deserved, however easily he may have gone down at times. Trezeguet dived for the penalty, Traore definitely dived at one point and a few others, but Grealish has such incredible close control of the ball that he is totally on command of what happens on those occasions.
Now Ashley Barnes, he is someone that goes down when it's not a foul, those challenges on high balls, he is brilliant at it but they DO annoy me
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
- 6,848
Spot on analysis and summation of how I react to him. Grinds my gears!
Kalimantan Gull
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Honestly there is no hope for people like yourself - still carry on with your love in for
One of the most talented English midfielders in generations - certainly potential to be best since Gazza - I still enjoy watching players like that. The difference between then and now is that we didn't come up against players like Gazza or Giggs or Bergkamp in the league so we could admire them from a distance. Now they are direct competitors we find every way we can to belittle opposition players, it gets frustrating.
What I want is for our players to be able to tackle him, to put him on his backside and come away with the ball, that would get me cheering. Couldn't do it once. But we did keep him relatively quiet and Ben White was excellent marking him in the second half, so I was very pleased with White's performance (and Potter's tactical switch)
You are correct.
He doesn't always 'need' to go down, mind you. He could stay manfully on his feet sometimes, like Lamptey did a game or so back, in the box, when the referee went 'you're OK mate', and everyone said 'why didn't he go down like everyone else - it would have been a nailed on penalty!!! FFS!!'.
I understand an intractable bias. It is the basis of religious devotion. However, when it degenerates to the talking of bollocks it gets a bit tedious.
Bissouma did exactly that.
SIMMO SAYS
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You live in cloud cuckoo land if you think any real Albion supporter is worried about upsetting the cheating diving preening pric#
I suggest you toddle off and support villa it will be less stressful for you.