KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Salah Diving Critisism Vs Maddision

Match of the day pundits saturday night and talksport on Monday morning spent quite a lot of time analysing the penalty that was given for Salah against West Ham and most of it was derogatory, calling him a cheat and going down easy etc.

Last night Maddison wins a penalty for Leicester which is basically a mirror image of the penalty awarded to Salah.

No media backlash anywhere to be found.

People are too quick to criticise foreign players but not British players. I just think it's really unfair to dedicate so much media time on critising Salah and then nothing for Maddison.

English players can't do anything wrong. As we saw with prickford, everything just gets swept under the rug and forgotten about.

the correct decision was to book salah for diving and award a penalty it was a foul and salah did dive

Fair enough if that is your view, I think Salah has been guilty of going down far too easy in the past to the point where I've thought that it's not really a pen.

For me though it's a stone wall penalty, the guy kicks him from behind and gets nothing on the ball, if the defender doesn't kick him then there is no foul to give away. Yes it's soft but these days it's a pen unless the refs start changing their standards for giving penalties.

hmmm, why does this not surprise me in the least Gay Gary Lineker has the first say and every other LFC hater parrots after him...talksport etc...

We see players go down all the time to get cheap penalties and free kicks...the player they should have gone after was Fornals who was diving everywhere...even doing the holding up of an invisible card to the referee for a legit challenge Gomez made on him.

I agree Salah dived on the contact, it was a penalty as the defender kicked his foot, the problem is, if he does not dive, the penalty is probably not given, as the contact would not have been been seen.

I remember last season there was a game where Mane ran across the box, got slightly kicked (similar contact to Salah), but took the shot and skewed it wide and got nothing, if he would have gone down on contact, we would have got the pen and probably scored. I do not think strikers can win on these.

There is definitely a different press reaction on the likes of Saint Harry getting a pen from "good forward play to initiate the foul" compared to the likes of Salah or Mane who "dive' in similar situations, maybe if Salah was English the press maybe different?

Exactly, just like we want referees to at least be consistent I feel if media outlets are going to spend hours discussing Salah' 'diving' then they should at least somewhere call out Maddison/Kane et al for the same thing when these incidents are so close together.

Another thing on consistent refereeing decisions, does anybody remember when Mane was sent off at city for a high boot on Ederson? Has anyone ever seen a referee give a red card for a similar high boot offence since then..... no