Taken from a Gareth Bale interview with the Guardian:
"I don't dive. It's just the speed at which I'm running and, if someone tries to clobber me, I'm not going to let them, am I? I'm not taking a stud in my shin for the sake of it, so I jump out of the way. It's still a foul. They've still illegally stopped me running and not touched the ball. The intent is there, so you don't need the contact."
When did football become a no-contact sport?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/16/gareth-bale-tottenham-champions-league
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comment by SuperGoon - Wizard of Özil! (U8455)
posted on 16/3/12
Gareth Bale. The 6 ft+, built-like-a-tank, surrender monkey.
comment by Marcelino- #SilvioForFIFAPresident (U6171)
posted on 16/3/12
It didn't, this is just a poor excuse for diving. If you are anticipating contact and jumping out the way no one has fouled you, so why do you claim foul and get awarded dubious penalties?
comment by Wild_ Rover (U5211)
posted on 16/3/12
"if someone tries to clobber me, I'm not going to let them, am I?......................so I jump out of the way".
This in effect is an admission of diving and should be punished accordingly
comment by Marcelino- #SilvioForFIFAPresident (U6171)
posted on 16/3/12
Wild_Rover.
Perhaps there would be the slightest mitigation if the people "alleged" to have fouled him were going into a tackle that would have seriously hurt him, but this has not been the case.
comment by Wengeance (U7296)
posted on 16/3/12
replace "clobber" with "tackle" because none of them were vicious
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