Stoke: Begovic, Shotton, Huth, Upson, Wilkinson, Kightly, Whelan, Nzonzi, Etherington, Walters, Jones. Subs: Sorensen, Palacios, Owen, Adam, Whitehead, Crouch, Jerome.
Southampton: Kelvin Davis, Hooiveld, Yoshida, Fonte, Shaw, Puncheon, Schneiderlin, Cork, Rodriguez, Do Prado, Lambert. Subs: Boruc, Steven Davis, Ramirez, Fox, Richardson, Mayuka, De Ridder.
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear)
Man Utd: De Gea, Smalling, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Carrick, Cleverley, Valencia, Kagawa, Young, Welbeck. Subs: Lindegaard, Ferdinand, Giggs, Hernandez, van Persie, Scholes, Buttner.
West Brom: Foster, Jones, McAuley, Tamas, Ridgewell, Thorne, Brunt, Rosenberg, Dorrans, Odemwingie, Long. Subs: Myhill, Morrison, El Ghanassy, Jara Reyes, Lukaku, Dawson, Fortune.
Referee: Jon Moss (W Yorkshire)
Alwful dive
1447:
Tottenham winger Gareth Bale:
"It's a vital win for us. We have put pressure on the other teams around us and it was a great performance from us. We got the two goals which we thoroughly deserved and won the game positively. This is the same again - three times now I've been clipped and I've been booked for no reason. People keep saying I dive but if you're clipped it's not a dive. Referees just have to look a bit closer."
Anyone got a clip of the dive?
Lukaku should have started for West Brom. You might as well attack their defence with everything.
RVC to score a last-minute winner?
Ryan Heatly on Twitter: "Still can't believe people can call that a dive. Awful stuff. Gareth Bale being victimised again."
RVP will win it for them, that's fairly assured by now.
In the meantime: Man Utd's defence.
Feel a bit sorry for Bale tbh, this McCarthyesque witchhunt against "diving" is going to work against skilful players in the EPL. I understand why players go to ground in these situations, because otherwise referees don't give a penalty/free kick.
Today, I thought it was a penalty, there was contact with the knee and Gardner's arm also goes out and catches him. Sure, he doesn't "need" to go down, but most players would do the same as him.
Originally Posted by Cripps
Anyone got a clip of the dive?
When you're running at that speed and someone makes contact with you, you're going to go down. I don't think anyone can really call that a dive, unless they've got their Arsenal tinted specs on.
I don't feel sorry for him at all (he gets defended enough as it is). As a great man once said, "stay on your feet".
Contact shouldn't equal a pelanty anyway. Sort it out FIFA.
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