Hatem Ben Arfa
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No I would not celebrate the Newcastle player doing it. Because it would mean we are nothing but low down cheats, that needed to cheat to win a Cup Final. Newcastle fans would be defenseless against other fans taunts of 'cheats, you didn't deserve'. There would be no defence against it, and any Newcastle fan denying they cheated to win a Cup Final would be lying to themselves.
Cheating to win is a hollow victory I'm affraid. Especially when it is in its most blatant, lowest, diritest and profound form. Just because others do it doesn't make it OK at all.
And for the record, I'm not lying. Even though I understand why you would think so. Fact of the matter is that not all football fans are so unscrupulous and cynical.
@ Worms, you say Ghana are the biggest cheats like they paid off the linesman and the referee. They had nothing to do with decisions that wrongly went in their favour. That does not make them cheats. So one player went down like Di Maria after a Uruguay defender placed their palm on his back(pathetic it is indeed, but it seems such things pass as the standard for free kicks and PK's nowadays, especially if you watch Real Madrid matches every week). I'm sorry but that doesn't make them the biggest cheats of the tournament. Nor does the linesman missing an offiside in the build up to Suarez red card. That was a very fast situation and linesmen can make mistakes and not properly keep up with play all the time or see everything with total clarity in such a crowded box.
Are you going to say that no Uruguay players dived in that game? I have a feeling they dived more than Ghana.
As for Bias on the TV. It happens with every World Cup or Euros. Along with people or even coahes always claiming officials favour the host nations. I don't see what your problem is? Or where there is a rule stating commentary of World Cups must be totally neutral and their personal favourite teams in the tournament should be kept secret?
I remember a recent Barca match this season where Busquets showed how much of a cheat he is again trying to hand ball a goal bound effort. It's a pathetic disgrace and cheating at it's lowest and in all honesty he should have seen red. If fans of other clubs throw the cheat insult at us and hold up Busquets as a Exhibit A, how can you defend and retort what you know has some basis in truth? It is just pathetic for those that do try and retort what is clearly the truth w/ regard to Busquets. I applaud other Barca fans like myself who acknowledge when our players do disgraceful sh*t or are in the wrong. It shows that we are not mindless myopic cousins of Arsene Wenger.
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