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olgitgooner wrote:The "Eduardo effect" will be with us for a few years yet.
I doubt it's even an issue, to be honest.
I know a lot was made of it, but in football terms the Eduardo incident was a long time ago, and referees have had all sorts of other controversies to concentrate on such as the N'gog dive and the Henry handball/video technology issue.
In any case, Ronaldo was always a known diver but he still got given them.... suggesting that refs give it as they see it, which is all you can ask. To suggest otherwise is just paranoid, if you ask me.
olgitgooner wrote:The "Eduardo effect" will be with us for a few years yet.
I doubt it's even an issue, to be honest.
I know a lot was made of it, but in football terms the Eduardo incident was a long time ago, and referees have had all sorts of other controversies to concentrate on such as the N'gog dive and the Henry handball/video technology issue.
In any case, Ronaldo was always a known diver but he still got given them.... suggesting that refs give it as they see it, which is all you can ask. To suggest otherwise is just paranoid, if you ask me.
I'm not so sure about that.
Drogba had a nailed on penalty denied him, purely because he's a diving *word censored*. And everyone knows it.
Eduardo, unfortunately, has probably been tarred with the same brush.
I think that on games like the one against Man U, where we were clearly dominating, creating the better chances and showing the best football, then an incident like the Arshavin one on that day are clearly frustrating because you know you don't get many chances against sides like ManU.
On games like the sunderland one, I'd rather we thrash them than winning (or equalizing) on a dodgy penalty. We can do much better than what we did last week-end...
