best divers, young ,vardy, daley?

[johnny the fox]

just  asking..no need to vote..ha ha.. it is tongue in cheek boys.

[Harry - LCFC]

Vardy isn't a diver. Today wasn't a dive. It was going down easy at worst.

[Larry_LCFC]

Vardy isn't a diver. He knows what hes doing in terms of getting players to trip him, but that's not the same thing. He is fast, slick and nimble which causes defenders to panic when he cuts across in front of them. Naturally they end up bundling him over. Great attribute of Vardy. Did it all last season and hopefully will continue.

[Kitchandro]

The penalty incident was right in front of me, Rafael pushed him over. Ashley Young he is not.

[RowlattsFox]

Today was a borderline dive, it depends on whether you class going down easy as a dive.

He is excellent at getting himself into positions to win penalties.

[Stadt]

Wasn't a pen but United have won hundreds of dubious penalties over the years, the penalty didn't cost them though

[Guest Sharpe's Fox]

Rafael was a spindly pussy, got outstrengthed and went all bitchy and made the ref make a decision.

[ktfox59]

Vards is just nicking it at the mo with that one today. But hey ho. Man utd have had their fair share of soft ones over the years.

[Finnegan]

Vardy doesn't dive. Knocky dives, Vardy's just fast and draws a lot of fouls.

[ktfox59]

Vardy doesn't dive. Knocky dives, Vardy's just fast and draws a lot of fouls.

nice point. Couldnt be more delighted for the lad.

[johnny the fox]

what about the foul on nugent in the build up for de maria's goal? nobody saw it?

[DennisNedry]

Love Vardy but today was a dive. First of all he forced contact by pushing his arse into the defender, and secondly the contact wasn't enough to knock him over really.

 

Hey, I'm glad he did because it swung the momentum our way and led to the best comeback I have ever seen.

 

But if that was a Man Utd player at the other end, I'd be on my feet screaming abuse.

[weller54]

Vardys quicker than Ussaine Bolt!!...

[Gingerballs]

LVG criticised rafael not vardy! Vardy just picking up from where he left off last season. Scoring, assisting, and giving nugent the chance of another year contract

[Hungry Hungry Fox]

He did what every striker should do if the defender is doing something idiotic in the penalty box

[Al-aLondon-Foxile]

Vardy did well to get across Rafeal and draw the foul, clever play. Thought he was lucky to get away with the shoulder barge leading up to it but definitely a pen for me.

[Lineker's Left Foot]

Premier League defences just cannot handle Vardy

[JonnyBoy]

Vardy won about 7 penos last season and not one was a dive.

 

Today was him being tactical, even if its the softest on contact he has the right to go down, if he went down without any contact at all then it would have been classed as a dive and i would have been dissapointed 

[FrankieADZ]

Vardy might have gone over a little easy, but there was contact there....and Utd fans need to think of it as karma for all the soft pens they've got over the years....finally know what it feels like. 

[xHamzah]

Yaya toure

[Charl91]

No, this one was a dive, no doubt about it whatsoever. Let's not kid ourselves here. You can see Vardy positioning himself to get contact with Rafael. http://gfycat.com/WhimsicalCoarseCattle

 

 

I've said before, I don't care though, I still love the guy.

[Larry_LCFC]

No, this one was a dive, no doubt about it whatsoever. Let's not kid ourselves here. You can see Vardy positioning himself to get contact with Rafael. http://gfycat.com/WhimsicalCoarseCattle

 

 

I've said before, I don't care though, I still love the guy.

That's hilarious. Cant beat a bit of GBH on Rafael

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Love Vardy but today was a dive. First of all he forced contact by pushing his arse into the defender, and secondly the contact wasn't enough to knock him over really.

 

Hey, I'm glad he did because it swung the momentum our way and led to the best comeback I have ever seen.

 

But if that was a Man Utd player at the other end, I'd be on my feet screaming abuse.

This.

Today was a dive. Normally I don't think he does, he's just too fast a nicks balls away from defenders before they know it. But today he tried to initiate the contact and then played for the penalty before Rafael could realise what was happening.

Personally I've no problem with it. It's clever play from Vardy if he can win the penalty as he did but, yeah, if it was against us I'd be fuming!

[Matty Hamez]

Don't know what you're all on about. Clear penalty, I thought and a straight red.

Ohhh, the first one. Yeah, dive. I'd maybe feel bad against almost any other team. But I don't.

[Carl the Llama]

No, this one was a dive, no doubt about it whatsoever. Let's not kid ourselves here. You can see Vardy positioning himself to get contact with Rafael. http://gfycat.com/WhimsicalCoarseCattle

 

 

I've said before, I don't care though, I still love the guy.

I see a striker moving to shield the ball and doing nothing to stay on his feet when the defender puts an arm on him.  I also see the defender trying to sneak an arm in thinking it might be shielded from view then thinking better of it only after making minimal contact, which is unfortunately enough these days.

I would 100% prefer Vardy to stay on his feet and take a shot or tee someone up, but by modern standards it's a definite penalty if the ref sees it, which he did fortunately unlike Vardy's enthusiastic barge moments earlier.

 

It certainly isn't on a par with dropping at no contact and that's why I don't personally class it as a dive.  Dubious gamesmanship yes, diving not quite.