Looking the other way

Posted on August 27, 2009 by bobpiper

Arsene Wenger was incensed at the end of last season about Chelsea’s Didier Drogba’s tendency to perform high-board acrobatics, describing it as a “diving culture” in the Premiership.
Not that ‘taking a dive’ is anything Arsenal players would do, you understand, and even if there was a suspicion of a dive by one of their players, Arsene would be the first to condemn it. Wouldn’t he?
Congratulations to Celtic manager Tony Mowbray, who in contrast to Wenger (in my opinion just about the best manager in Europe, by the way) refused to whinge about Eduardo’s blatant piece of cheating.

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One Response to Looking the other way

  1. Peter Gasston says:
    August 27, 2009 at 11:21 am

    First Wenger claimed he never saw it, then that Eduardo probably jumped out of the way because of his injury, then that lots of other teams dive anyway. I know that managers like to protect their players, but I found that ridiculous.
    An immediate condemnation and the assurance that he would have a word with Eduardo about his behaviour would have been the right thing to do, as well as making all this fuss go away a lot faster.

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