Did Shevchenko Dived against Tunisia

• zocoss

  25 Jun 06, 02:40

  Did any of you watch the match? According to reports on soccernet, he dived to get a penalty... Did he?
  
  The report:
  
  Tunisia unhappy at Shevchenko 'dive'
  
  Andriy Shevchenko has been accused of diving for the penalty that put Ukraine into the last 16 of the World Cup.
  
  Shevchenko scored from the spot to beat Tunisia 1-0 in Berlin on Friday but Tunisia defender Karim Haggui, who was penalised for fouling the £30million Chelsea striker, claims the decision was wrong.
  
  He said: 'For the penalty, I didn't touch him - Shevchenko has been very clever. We are very disappointed because I think that is a pity for football.'
  
  Tunisia coach Roger Lemerre also said there was 'huge bitterness' among the players.
  
  He said: 'I will never throw the first stone towards referees. They are on the field to do their job and there is no changing their decisions, but I must admit the bitterness among the players is huge.
  
  'When you have fought like that you have the impression your team has been beaten unjustly.'
  
  The page:
  
  http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=372414&cc=4716
  
• Patrik

  25 Jun 06, 03:08

  Diver!!!!!
• corebooster

  25 Jun 06, 04:21

  Drogba taught shev the 1st chelsea trick 2 sucess!
• used

  25 Jun 06, 11:28

  dissapointing coming from a world class player. he has not even train with chelsea but already learning their tricks.
• zocoss

  25 Jun 06, 12:02

  Originally posted by used:

  dissapointing coming from a world class player. he has not even train with chelsea but already learning their tricks.

  Perhaps this is called settling into your new working environment?
• the Bear

  25 Jun 06, 12:05

  yeah.. he dived.. actually, if he went down after the first or 2nd contact, no one would have accused him of diving
  
  thing is, maybe he didn't dive... maybe he tripped over himself...
• Agenda

  25 Jun 06, 14:00

  definitely a dive, he survived the first 2 tugs then he know he won't score already so he fell down even though the defender barely touched him
• used

  25 Jun 06, 14:45

  Originally posted by zocoss:

  Perhaps this is called settling into your new working environment?

  he is settling very well then!
• mamamamama

  25 Jun 06, 20:25

  why not say he managed to maintain his balance just for that few seconds before falling down?
• Patrik

  25 Jun 06, 20:27

  Originally posted by zocoss:

  Perhaps this is called settling into your new working environment?