There has to be a compromise on the part of diving.
Without diving, the game would become exceeding rough and we would see star players injured by street tactics.
But there must be a rule.
As I think its reasonable to assume players fall all the time for dumb reasons, not everyone is trying to dive. I think players who fall to protect themselves, self-trip, or lose their balance AND DO NOT wave their hands in protest should not be given cards for diving. As its hard to tell a player they can never fall to the ground. If they fall and shut their mouths then play on, but i think to punish players who "fall" but is seen as a "dive" by half the fans is wrong and would damage the game.

quality, quality dive from bale, i c his a true spud at heart, what a SCUM

Brad Guzan is one of the x-men, he has telekinesis powers we all know that...Bale never dived!

Watch the replay, Guzan has that knowing smile on his face after, like he's thinking, "Eat grass welsh boy, I'm a motherf*cking x-man byatch. You can't beat ME..."

Watching Tottenham play well makes my man parts tingle. :\

Come on then Chelsea, we'll turn you pendejos over!

COYS!

How can you not like avb? Articulate, intelligent, honest, enthusiastic. He looks like a kid on the sidelines, hard not to root for him.

Tottenham are looking good, AVB style of play is great to watch.

I love football, but Bale's dive was sickening. He should be banned for a couple of games for that. It's really bad for the sport, known notoriously for simulation and loads of cry babies. Not all footballers are like that, but too many are.

Have to admit we were very lucky with the first and aston villa's substitution opened up the game even more because of that. The tottenham players were looking quite lethargic maybe due to the Euro Cup. Hope AVB will make some rotation the next time

I'm not a Bale hater, but diving like that should equate some fierce penalties by the FA upon post-game review. Perhaps a month fine and 1-3 match ban would make him think twice before trying something like that again. Harsh, but the diving needs to stop. Its wrecking the game.

benteke is not bad, apart from that aston villa looked poor, on the contrary tottenham were great but gareth bale is just poor, poor poor dive, he pulled a SUAREZ, WHY DUDE?

bale maan nice dive do it again

Get the f**k up Bale

What a heinous challenge by Guzan on Bale. Sending off and a 3-match suspension for that, made the poor lad topple to the ground

lennon needs to shot more often he always gets himself into great chances like this one

how the hell do you pur ur best striker (Bent) on the bench?! hm