who is the best diver?

lili

IMO pippo inzaghi is the man.

Space Coyote

i think Inzaghi is in a class of his own when it comes to the art of diving.
Van Nistelrooy should study his technique

Samba

Id say practicing diving is a common activity with the Italian national team

MrJoeSoap

David feckin Beckham is on the floor every few minutes, the little whinge-bag.

cournioni

Ashley Cole, Michael Owen, David Beckham, and of course... the master of the dive... DAVID GINOLA!

Hobart

Not playing anymore but the man that wrote the book the one, the only Jurgen Klinsmann (was a decent player aswell)

lili

isn't diouf the best diver of EPL?

Sposs

It has to be Jurgen Klinsmann .

gandalf

It has to be Klinsmann, without a doubt a master diver.

Gandalf.

Waylander

Franny Jeffers!!!

mada999

i think the master in klinsmann but that ginger tosser paul scholes loves flying aswell!

garypope

stephen mcphail falls over if the wind blows.

beckham and scholes always go down easily around the box.. and clinton morrison has been getting a bad name recently..

Bateman

Bergkamp or Owen.

Space Coyote

hmm garypope, i don't think falling over in the leeds reserves counts for much these days

ginola rarely got away with diving, ref always told him to get the fudge up.
klinsmann was indeed a master.
ashley cole is a diving little sheet. i wanna hit him so bad.
becks needs to practise his diving, makes him look even bennier than he already is.

Sposs

Dont forget the 6 foot 2,14 stone made outta paper Emile Heskey.

BKtje

lmao sposs

conZ

probly not the worst, but an especially poor diver, Van Nistoolroy.
He'd have the ball, edge of the box, some defender would run past him and he'd jump.

His are just so lame and he rarely gets a free, ending up losing possesion.

mike65

Robbie savage - He's not top drawer material but a good trier!

Klinsmann rules ok!

Mike.

super_furry

Definately either Ashley Cole or Ruud van Nistelrooy. Both horrible little cheats, although only one of them looks like Mr Ed.

gandalf

Lads Lads Lads no one in the current Premiership comes close to Jurgen for diving ability. I mean after he dived he would then "spasm" when he hit the ground like he broke every bone in his body (maybe even roll for 10 or 20 metres for effect!).

I suppose its nice for a Spurs player to be first at something

Gandalf.

Hobart

Originally posted by gandalf
Lads Lads Lads no one in the current Premiership comes close to Jurgen for diving ability. I mean after he dived he would then "spasm" when he hit the ground like he broke every bone in his body (maybe even roll for 10 or 20 metres for effect!).

I suppose its nice for a Spurs player to be first at something

Gandalf.

Gandalf well said. Again I notice the Scouse V Manc theme. Lads get a life. Although you children are probably far too young to remember the legend that was Jurgen Klinsmann

Makaveli

A special award should go to the Porto team thay played Liverpool in the Uefa Cup a couple of years ago. They spent more time rolling around than playing. One idiot rolled off the pitch, well done ya dope no time wasting for that.

lili

do you think something must be done for such attitude?
i'm thinking to a guy from PSG called flores, he got 2 suspensions match for indeniable divings.

Basturk(d) for Bayer Leverkusen and turkey.
RVN, Franny jeffers, Ashely Cole, all germans, Beckham, Laurent Robert, some Italians, all brazilians, some spanish, some argentinians, some french, basically alot of johnny foreigners.

Shearer dives. Kevin Moran used to dive as well as stuart pearce, julian dicks and terry Butcher... all going in for the ball like no tommorrow

jonno

Well most players, especially attacking ones dive ( that rules all Liverpool players out so Shame on me )

Ah no seriously I was really pissed off at Jeffers on Saturday. Cudichini picked up a needless bookings for doing nothing. He has to take the biscuit.

Then again Inzaghi, Klinsmann and Beckham are all fairly acrobatic also.

darthmise

Francesco Totti.

cournioni

In all honesty... I find it hard to believe that Owen isn't being mentioned at all. He is a cheating little bastard when he wants to be.

I do agree though that van Nistelrooy is a bit of a diver alright.


... trying to even things up a bit there.

Klinsmann was indeed the master of the dive.

Pepe LeFrits

Undoubtedly Klinsmann. Remember his dive against Milan that got Costacurta(?) sent off for an 'elbow to the face'? Masterful. Bastard.

woosaysdan

i think the chelsea keeper is a good diver so to is barthez!!! lol no it has to be klinsmann. didnt he do that sliding dive when he scored b4???

thegills

Remember the match against Deportivo, Barthez dived over the ball and left Tristan with an open goal!

What about the Croat lad who got Blanc banned for the World Cup final.

Owen doesn't dive much, he is so quick and gets to the ball first. Jeffers is blatant. Against Chelsea he was looking back at the ref before he had even hit the ground!

KdjaCL

Any player who doesnt dive when the oppurtunity to win a match arises is a muppet.
Any fan who doesnt cheer when one of his own teams players and gets a free/peno from diving is lying.

kdjac

Waylander

I disagree with that, there are plenty of times when a player has gone down, not got a peno but if he had stayed on his feet he would have been clean through. When Robbie Fowler jumped up and said that Seaman had not touched him he shot up in my estimation. Up to that point I had hated Fowler. It changed my whole opinion of him. When Roy Evans criticised him for doing it, it confirmed my opinion of him. The yugoslav team are faily bad for diving too, especially Michalovic (sp?).

Gangsta

Don't 4get Rivaldo in the World Cup, Turkish lad fouls him him in the leg, 'Ah, my face!!' says Rivaldo. Red Card for Turkish fella.

Pigman II

Damian Duffs a pretty decent diver. Definetly took a dive for our first peno v Spain in the World Cup and I've seen him do likewise on plenty of other occasions.

Caesar_Bojangle

Don't 4get Rivaldo in the World Cup, Turkish lad fouls him him in the leg, 'Ah, my face!!' says Rivaldo. Red Card for Turkish fella.

i remember watching that and thinking wtf as Rivaldo wasnt even convincing