For many, soccer is a game of fitness where players have to keep running for full ninety minutes, and sometimes, in extra time too, but they also need to dive occasionally either to use their header or to earn a penalty. Many legendry soccer players have recently been accused of using dives wrongly just to earn their teams a penalty and United’s Ashley Young is the new name to be in this list. In Tuesday’s Champions League Group A clash with Real Sociedad in Spain, the 28-year-old midfielder used his diving skills and earned a penalty and later many accused him of conning the referee, who was not in a better position to see the actuals, for an unfair reason and asked for a disciplinary action against him. Action replay clearly showed that this was not the genuine case to reward a penalty and many experts on TV called it a cheating. Sky Sports pundit Ray Wilkins openly bashed Ashley’s cheap move and said, “This is pathetic. This is as bad for me as all these over-the-top tackles we're … [Read more...]
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