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well done mikel

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watching SSN earlier i saw something about mikel calling for action to be taken over crouch's comments about alll foreigners diving/cheating/play acting/commiting dirty fouls. mikel has considered this as racist as do i.

and i have to say well done to mikel.

here is a link to what crouch said

www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...

i don't particularly like mikel and i think he is a bit of a play actor. however for crouch to say

'If you go in on Frank Lampard or John Terry, would they roll around like Obi did? I don't think so.

'Would someone like Jamie Carragher have gone down like that? I think it's safe to say he wouldn't.

'Foreign players have brought a lot to our game, but what Obi did is something you don't want to see. I didn't catch him, but he went down like he had been shot.'

ok foreign players dive but hes saying NO english players do this. the ref got the red card for crouch right but should of given a yellow to mikel for his part.

crouch did a horrible, terrible dangerous challenge that if he did catch mikel more than what he did then mikel could well not be playing football.

crouch is to blame for getting himself sent off not mikel, not the ref not other foreigners. it seems when something goes wrong then theres only one thing you can do

BLAME THE FOREIGNERS

its like our national motto. it should be made a song and made our national anthem.

the rules state going in 2 feet warrents a red card whether you make contact or not. and i feel this is right because if you catch the player you could well injure him. its a dangerrous challenge and dangerous deserves red.

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posted Dec 22, 2007

Gerald have scored most many penalty this season from diving,
maybe crouchy should start with him,or just blind to see.

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posted Dec 22, 2007

we have see gerrard dive against the mighty Andorra,Ac-milan,sheffied,Villa and made a meal out of the tackle to score a free kick.Rooney dive to end Arsenal unbeaten run and was made a hero.Mr salvage is the most cunning and dirties british player.Then you Andy Johnson too,who has a reputation for diving.

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posted Dec 22, 2007

"we have see gerrard dive against the mighty Andorra,Ac-milan,sheffied,Villa and made a meal out of the tackle to score a free kick.Rooney dive to end Arsenal unbeaten run and was made a hero.Mr salvage is the most cunning and dirties british player.Then you Andy Johnson too,who has a reputation for diving."

In English please?

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posted Dec 22, 2007

i not saying crouch has anything against black people in particular. but he is having a bit of a go against all things none english.

and what way you look at it he is saying that english can dive and that but foreigners can't.

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posted Dec 22, 2007

I don't think it was racist as such, just extremely ignorant. He made an awful tackle which could have resulted in a serious injury.

I hope now, people will stop saying things like "Crouch is an honest guy" and "That's very unlike Peter (Crouch) to make that sort of challenge".

Because, quite simply, Crouch has shown himself to be rather a poor character. I've seen him dive a handful of times - he's no angel.

I'm not Mikel's biggest fan, but he's a very young player, so to some extent, he can be excused. Not Crouch.

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posted Dec 22, 2007

comment by Essien's Right Boot
posted 6 Minutes Ago

"we have see gerrard dive against the mighty Andorra,Ac-milan,sheffied,Villa and made a meal out of the tackle to score a free kick.Rooney dive to end Arsenal unbeaten run and was made a hero.Mr salvage is the most cunning and dirties british player.Then you Andy Johnson too,who has a reputation for diving."

In English please?

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what does that mean? if you don't understand what he's saying then look away from it.
He was giving his opinion,wasn't talking to you.You are a proud lot,i'm sure you say worse things than crouch.
People make typical error sometimes from doing couple of things at a time, so don't make a mountain out of it to
provoke a fellow mate.I'm 100% sure you have an idea what he meant or tried saying.

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comment by blueJ2 (U1754318)

posted Dec 22, 2007

Crouch is an idiot. He deserved to be sent off - there was no excuse for what he did. And he should have shut his mouth at that stage instead of trying to justify his ridiculous foul. What he says later about foreigners helps nobody. It just intensifies anger between everyone. If there was a punishment for being stupid, he would receive another ban.

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posted Dec 22, 2007

racist my arse - crouch is merely offering an opinion which might (and appears to have) ruffled a few feathers

whilst all players dive regardless of nationality, the rolling around feigning injury does seem to be something of an 'import'.

crouch is entitled to his opinion, unfortunately he forgot he wasn't in a country which endorses freedom of speech.

why don't all you do-gooders go home and complain about christmas or something

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comment by shivfan (U2435266)

posted Dec 23, 2007

It's not such an import....

Remember when Cristiano Ronaldo got sent off for that 'headbutt'?

Leighton Baines, I think it was, did a bit of acting that was worthy of an Oscar!
laugh
Before you criticise the dust in someone else's eye, take the plank out of yours.

Crouch's statement is nothing short of xenophobia....

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posted Dec 23, 2007

Message to Crouch: Or challenge was disgusting and very dangerous. YOU yes YOU got yourself sent off for something as dangerous as that! Get over it!

By the way, I'm not saying that my team don't commit any dirty fouls before I get barracked!

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