Has there ever been such a concerted hate campaign against a footballer as there seems to be about this guy.
Let's say at the start he's no angel in terms of staying on his feet, and I don't like divers same as everyone else. So I'm not trying to defend him but he's hardly alone in that regard, these days they're all at it. And he's had incidents where he's been kicked up in the air and got nothing at all.
He was a hate figure even before he came to this country thanks to his handball on the line which saw the last african team knocked out of the african world cup. The pc press didn't like that and have had it in for him ever since. Which was why he's never had a fair crack of the whip in England.
The Evra affair didn't help, and he did himself no favours at all there.
But putting that aside, every week now the opposing manager picks him out for criticism, Moyes is the the latest.
I wouldn't mind if he was the only player going down too easily to con the ref but we can all name planty of others who do exactly the same thing.
For the record I think he's a good player but not a great goalscorer, and a bit of a hothead who can get wound up too easily and I'm not so sure that he's worth all of the opprobrium he seems to bring with him. Some justified, but an awful lot of it not, which is my point.
Let's say at the start he's no angel in terms of staying on his feet, and I don't like divers same as everyone else. So I'm not trying to defend him but he's hardly alone in that regard, these days they're all at it. And he's had incidents where he's been kicked up in the air and got nothing at all.
He was a hate figure even before he came to this country thanks to his handball on the line which saw the last african team knocked out of the african world cup. The pc press didn't like that and have had it in for him ever since. Which was why he's never had a fair crack of the whip in England.
The Evra affair didn't help, and he did himself no favours at all there.
But putting that aside, every week now the opposing manager picks him out for criticism, Moyes is the the latest.
I wouldn't mind if he was the only player going down too easily to con the ref but we can all name planty of others who do exactly the same thing.
For the record I think he's a good player but not a great goalscorer, and a bit of a hothead who can get wound up too easily and I'm not so sure that he's worth all of the opprobrium he seems to bring with him. Some justified, but an awful lot of it not, which is my point.
then you have Young, dives for fun....but its ok because hes Fergies player.
