Anyone Catch That Beckham Dive?

Get over it friend. You got a tie. (let's not even talk about that bogus foul on Xavier that led to the GTG)

Plus, it's common nature for any ref internationally to be more hasty to award a PK to a team after he had already awarded it to the opposition.

And, he didn't even take the PK, so how would that get him on ESPN exactly?

 

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The call was very soft. I thought Beckham didn't dive, but the truth is he never really gets that many chances to dive. How many times do you see the ball on his foot inside the opponent's box?

As questionable as the Becks PK was, it didn't compare to what the ref dealt to Xavier. How can someone get a yellow when there shouldn't have been a foul in the first place? How can a team lose their chance at 3 points on a free kick that shouldn't have happened?

 

I think you missed his last shot.

 

Brilliant! Had me up in stitches.

 

Looking back at the two incidents, I find it funny that Xavier's tackle is shown from three different angles, including X-mo, while the Becks penalty (which looks softer every time I see it) gets only one far shot. Great job, FSN West. Keep up the good work.

 

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I'm a Galaxy fan and I don't think Beckham dived BUT I did feel that the ref should have not called a foul and awarded our team a penalty kick. He should've let it play on.

 

Ref was horrible both ways. None of the officials even seemed to be able to tell something as simple as who touched the ball last when it went out of play. In the first half, Columbus had at least two totally inexplicable corner kicks.

 

Don't respond to assholes who continue to parrot the MLS Rumors line of farce. If it makes some jerk happy to pretend that what one lone idiot said one time represents Columbus as a whole as he also pretends there's a single stadium anyplace where the same thing hasn't happened, then he's a moron and not worth responding to.

As for the Schelotto clips, I've never been clear what that compilation was supposed to prove. There is definite, positive contact made in each and every one of the fouls shown. It's beyond question.

Whoever put that together apparently doesn't know a foul when he sees one, and anyone who endorses it by posting it as proof of "diving" is just as ignorant.

(And that leaves aside the short clip showing a group of seething, frothing at the mouth TFC fans obviously screaming "fuck you" and frantically waving their middle fingers, which I can't believe the compiler actually was so proud of that he included it. It says nothing whatever about Schelotto and a lots of things about TFC fans.

In any case, those fans were abusing Hejduk standing on a sideline waiting to take a throwin - it has nothing whatever to do with Schelotto, although the compiler obviously wants you to believe otherwise)

All that the video shows from a football standpoint is Schelotto making a meal out of being fouled, not him "diving". As I said, there's unquestionable contact in each case, a couple of them quite hard.

And when you can point to one guy in the league who doesn't do the same thing, let me know.

And the Beckham, part of this discussion is pure comedy:

People are here defending the hell out of Beckham selling the foul and then griping about Schelotto for doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

Do some of you actually read what you write before hitting "submit"?

Here's Becks last night, flopping like a freshly boated bass on little or no contact. Far more flagrant than anything on the Schelotto video.

In fact, it's almost comedic.

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Bottom line, it's a very shaky call, but there were more than enough of them to go around - BOTH ways - last night. No one has a beef.

 

You cannot actually tell from that video (or any TV replays that I saw) whether Beckham was clipped or not. If you have some other video that is actually useful, then please post it. Yes, it does sort of look like he may have dived, but you really can't tell from that poor angle with an obscured view whether or not he was clipped. So, maybe you ought to take your own advice about reading what you write before hitting enter (or in this case, actually looking at the video evidence you present). What the good, slow motion replays DID show were that the foul against Xavier leading to the final goal was completely wrong, and that the PK on Columbus' 2nd goal could easily be claimed a dive as well, though I can see why it would have been hard for the referee to detect it.

In the end, Galaxy was given the benefit of doubt on one goal, while CB was given the benefit of doubt on one goal, and then gifted another.

 

Who gives a shit, really.

 

Wait.

I thought we played San Jose last week.

I think that's the point, Bill. That's why ppl lashed out at the OP.

 

It goes both ways, L.A. Perhaps focusing on the game is best.