The Big Diving Sweepstake

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

Pick the minute in the match you think we will first spot a dive and who will be the diver.

20 imaginary points for the winner


***BONUS ROUND***

How many times will Sergio Busquets go down clutching his face in tonight's encounter?

10 imaginary points up for grabs

3rd minute, Ronaldo.

Do we get bonus points for predicting the classic double dive (when the fouler also feigns his own injury to avoid a booking)?

Great idea.

Ronalda. Busquets 3 times.

what about handing out Oscars/raspb erries for the best/worst acting?

best/worst dive
best/worst time-wasting
best/worst playing innocent after sick foul
best/worst ref ass-licking
plenty of other categories possible

Six wrote:Do we get bonus points for predicting the classic double dive (when the fouler also feigns his own injury to avoid a booking)?

Oooh. Good question.

10 imaginary points for correctly picking a double dive combo which occurs at some point in the match (only one guess allowed!).

It's a point fest and everyone can be a winner

With all the diving we're likely to see tonight we're going to have to have everyone watching carefully and posting information as it comes.

So whenever you spot a dive, be sure to post the culprit, time and circumstances on this thread

Torres will get Pepe sent off with some slight over-exaggeration. 67th minute. Pepe tries the double dive (or counter dive?) and fails.

My pick is Carlos Puyol in the 7th minute

Busquets to dive 6 times in all, clutching his face on five occasions

Of all the latin divers, Spain has the least, but these days they have a lot of Barca players. With Busquets and Pique, the conte asking for cards during the Chili game , its gonna be a tough battle against the divine diving masters from Portugal.

Im going for an outsider though, Tiago!

First diver: Sergio Ramos, 6th minute.

Busquet face grabs: A very restrained two

Double dive: A Torres-Carvalho special

The ref will be Argentinian Hector Baldassi

his stats:

http://www.weltfussball.de/schiedsrichter_profil/hector-baldassi/1/1/

Could 1 of our Argentinian/ South-american friends tell what he's like?

Deco 14th minute

Little Cry Boy during the warm-up

I want tunnel fracas!

tortilla throwing

Six wrote:Torres will get Pepe sent off with some slight over-exaggeration. 67th minute. Pepe tries the double dive (or counter dive?) and fails.

No, no, no....Torres will dive and then Pepe will stamp on his back and kick him on the ground.

Dive: Busquets, 4th minute as he's charged down in midfield and realises he won't be able to release the ball.

Faking injury: Torres in the 20th minute after losing the ball yet again and realising Portugal are on the counter with a long ball to Ronaldo.

Card waving: Xavi, whenever Pepe first attempts any kind of tackle.

Fabio Coentrao will be the first to dive after busting down the left and going down under a nothing challenge to win his team a dangerous freekick around the six minute mark.

As Kas said Fernando Torres will be the first to fake injury tonight.

The first player to wave the imaginary card will be Gerard Pique, I seen him do this in Spains last game and he will do it again for sure.

Pique only did it last time but Xavi and Puyol are the most prolific at the card waving. Xavi in particular moans at the ref for absolutely everything, even throw-ins.

debaser wrote:

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

...blah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-r__wG_RA

So how is ref Baldassi when it comes to playacting? will he give cards for diving? is he easily fooled?

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

...blah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-r__wG_RA

Saying two sides are particularly skilled at diving doesn't mean that other sides don't also dive. Gerrard dives, Rooney dives, yada yada.

I still expect we will see more dives from both teams tonight than we have in all England games combined

Fey wrote:Of all the latin divers, Spain has the least, but these days they have a lot of Barca players. With Busquets and Pique, the conte asking for cards during the Chili game , its gonna be a tough battle against the divine diving masters from Portugal.

Im going for an outsider though, Tiago!

He won't play IMO, Deco will be his replacement.

First diver: Ronaldo, 3rd minute.

Busquet face grabs: during the Spanish anthem, because he will try to hide his big zit from the camera showing it.

Double dive: it has to be Puyol against Portugal's CF, whomever he will be.

debaser wrote:

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

...blah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-r__wG_RA

Saying two sides are particularly skilled at diving doesn't mean that other sides don't also dive. Gerrard dives, Rooney dives, yada yada.

I still expect we will see more dives from both teams tonight than we have in all England games combined

debaser wrote:

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

...blah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-r__wG_RA

Saying two sides are particularly skilled at diving doesn't mean that other sides don't also dive. Gerrard dives, Rooney dives, yada yada.

I still expect we will see more dives from both teams tonight than we have in all England games combined

That's easy. You usualy go out soon....

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

...blah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-r__wG_RA

Saying two sides are particularly skilled at diving doesn't mean that other sides don't also dive. Gerrard dives, Rooney dives, yada yada.

I still expect we will see more dives from both teams tonight than we have in all England games combined

That's easy. You usualy go out soon....

Because we play fair. None of this diving & tactics nonsense.

Six wrote:

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

...blah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-r__wG_RA

Saying two sides are particularly skilled at diving doesn't mean that other sides don't also dive. Gerrard dives, Rooney dives, yada yada.

I still expect we will see more dives from both teams tonight than we have in all England games combined

That's easy. You usualy go out soon....

Because we play fair. None of this diving & tactics nonsense.

You forgot to erase the link above

Lusitan wrote:

Six wrote:

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

Lusitan wrote:

debaser wrote:

It's Spain vs Portugal tonight.

Two masters of the dark arts.

...blah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-r__wG_RA

Saying two sides are particularly skilled at diving doesn't mean that other sides don't also dive. Gerrard dives, Rooney dives, yada yada.

I still expect we will see more dives from both teams tonight than we have in all England games combined

That's easy. You usualy go out soon....

Because we play fair. None of this diving & tactics nonsense.

You forgot to erase the link above

Anything goes against the Germans!

Pot, Kettle, Black


Always amusing this threads

Yeah.. but its obvious im joking no?

"none of this tactics nonsense" Ahem.