Gareth Bale.

[blackpoolhibs]

Just cant help himself.

[down-the-slope]

Scoring or diving ?

[down-the-slope]

Spurs are ripping them a new one though - never seen such a one sided game at this level for ages....

[NadeAteMyLunch!]

Wish he'd stop diving!!! Ridiculously good footballer

[Aldo]

Laddies only 23 as well. Good shout for POTY in engurlandshire

[MWHIBBIES]

His diving is pathetic, will be into double figures for bookings soon.

[Pretty Boy]

Funny that the British media love to peddle the myth that 'them foreign types' are to blame for diving yet the 2 worst divers of the last 10 years in the EPL have been English and Welsh respectively.

[JohnStephens91]

It won't be mentioned much by the British media either, if it was a foreign player like Suarez you could imagine the furore a dive from someone like that would cause. Bale is the worst for it in the EPL at the moment and hardly a peep is made because he is British.

[Jonnyboy]

The way the commentary team treated it like he was just a naughty schoolboy was pathetic. Bale is a great player but an even greater diver sadly

[jdships]

Putting aside the diving /simulation ( there were three yellow cards) that was as enjoyable 90 minutes football as I have watched in years
Good football , good goals and not a nasty foul all night
Spurs played some lovely football going forward ( midfield was great) but still don't fancy their back four under pressure !!

[HibernianJK]

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Funny that the British media love to peddle the myth that 'them foreign types' are to blame for diving yet the 2 worst divers of the last 10 years in the EPL have been English and Welsh respectively.

I think this is party true. Foreign players are a lot worse for rolling around and feigning injury. I think this can sometimes be confused with simulation.

[Pete]

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I think this is party true. Foreign players are a lot worse for rolling around and feigning injury. I think this can sometimes be confused with simulation.

Refs are getting wise to it now. I'm so glad that "contact" doesn't automatically mean a foul was committed.

A few years ago Bale might have got that penalty.

[VickMackie]

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Refs are getting wise to it now. I'm so glad that "contact" doesn't automatically mean a foul was committed.

A few years ago Bale might have got that penalty.

I agree about the refs.

It's the way he moved his leg into the defender then has the audacity to walk away shaking his head and pointing to his leg that's the scunner. It's almost like he believed it himself!

[YehButNoBut]

Transfer News Live ‏@DeadlineDayLive Gareth Bale has agreed a new £130k p/wk contract with Tottenham, more than double the club's next highest paid player. (Source: Independent)

Transfer News Live ‏@DeadlineDayLive
Gareth Bale's new contract will include a £50m release clause which can be activated no earlier than Summer 2014. (Source: Independent)

[IWasThere2016]

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His diving is pathetic, will be into double figures for bookings soon.

6 of the last 8 for simulation. He's a cheat.

[bigwheel]

Is anyone actually suggesting he dived yesterday ? That can't be right ...

[Sylar]

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Is anyone actually suggesting he dived yesterday ? That can't be right ...

Never a dive - his reputation done him yesterday though.

[lapsedhibee]

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Is anyone actually suggesting he dived yesterday ? That can't be right ...

Bale and Suarez, the only two people on the planet to whom Newton's laws of motion don't apply. Defenders pull them back and they are propelled forward - in Bale's case yesterday horizontally, better than Christopher Reeve ever managed.

Great player but serial diving cheater.

[bigwheel]

Dear oh dear ...

[lapsedhibee]

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Dear oh dear ...

What? If he hadn't performed the unnecessary leap yesterday he'd probably have got the pen. Reap what you sow etc.

[JeMeSouviens]

Playing the Devil's Avocado: the real problem imo is that ref's won't give a penalty unless the player falls over, even if they're clearly fouled and it's stopped them having a shot.

There's a youtube of Gary Neville explaining this with examples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNx5ok60U6A

[MWHIBBIES]

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Never a dive - his reputation done him yesterday though.

I agree but its Karma for earning himself that reputation IMO.

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

Bit like that Cheater Pawlett. You could see him getting cemented in the future and not getting a penalty.

[FromTheCapital]

Bale's reputation for diving probably made the referee give the foul for diving. It wasn't a dive in my opinion as Larsson clearly has his arms all over Bale along with some tugging before finally pushing Bale to the ground but I still don't think there was a need to throw both legs up in the air and give the referee an excuse to call it a dive.

[lapsedhibee]

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Playing the Devil's Avocado: the real problem imo is that ref's won't give a penalty unless the player falls over, even if they're clearly fouled and it's stopped them having a shot.

There's a youtube of Gary Neville explaining this with examples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNx5ok60U6A

Neville's head and shoulders above every other TV pundit at the moment but his final argument here is essentially that diving's here to stay because those universally admired heroes Beckham, Gerrard and Lampard do it. 't ain't necessarily so.

[Speedy]

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Playing the Devil's Avocado: the real problem imo is that ref's won't give a penalty unless the player falls over, even if they're clearly fouled and it's stopped them having a shot.

There's a youtube of Gary Neville explaining this with examples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNx5ok60U6A

Haven't watched the video but I've been saying this for a while.

If refs give fouls for fouls rather than players being brought down then players won't feel like they need to go down.

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Never a dive - his reputation done him yesterday though.

[Squealing pig]

Get him signed to replace sparky

[Holmesdale Hibs]

Well, haha and nae luck. I'm glad he never got that penalty, would have been funny if it cost them a place in the top 4. He's a dirty cheating neanderthal *******. Hope this teaches him he shouldn't have been diving earlier in the season, including against Scotland.

I hope someone nails him in the box next time he plays and he doesn't get a penalty for that either.

Great player but a total cheat and I'm glad it's catching up on him.

[Scouse Hibee]

Another diabolical refereeing decision that is being glossed over because it's Bale, it was a penalty all day long and the ref made a huge error in not giving it.