By Chris Wright
Let me list the reasons I hate Arjen Robben with the burning fire of one thousand imploding
suns...
1) He doesn't run, he gingerly minces.
2) He, and you may have noticed this yourselves, feigns career-ending injuries quite regularly only
to get up when it suits and keep on gingerly mincing.
Spain, currently not the best team in the world according to the FIFA World Ranking but probably
the best team according to anyone who has been watching world football for the past three years,
were embroiled in a post-match bust-up with Chile after a friendly on Friday. Replays conclusively
show that Spain's winning penalty should not have been awarded, and the subsequent brawl the ensued
came on the same day as the FIFA fair play campaign.
By Eric Beard, follow on twitter
Though I didn't see the whole match, I did catch the highlights and I saw the dive. No, not that
one from Sergio Busquets. Or that one from Angel Di Maria. Or THAT one from Javier Mascherano. No,
the match I'm talking about was Manchester United's trip to Newcastle a while back that finished
0-0.
We're not talking step-over. He literally hits himself in the face to get a freekick. It looks
like a real foul until you see the replay. The referee bought it.
What's the appropriate punishment for Carrasco?
- Eternal infamy
- Bias attention from referees in future matches
- Nothing, we should just get over it
Not exactly the beautiful game.
After a fine win and an excellent performance on Saturday you would have to be of a churlish
disposition to find any negatives.
So here I am, Churl-in-chief, primed and ready for a bit of top churling.
It amounts to this: I have one complaint about our lads.
It's not the wayward finishing (although if some of our forwards were tasked with clubbing baby
seals, my money would be on the cuddly little blubber-buckets to emerge injury-free).
