Re: Manchester United Supporters Thread.
Of course not, that's not what I'm saying - I'm saying I don't blame Campbell for not shaking his hand, because I wouldn't either. I accept diving happens, but I don't accept it's a part of the game, it's cheating plain and simple. I wouldn''t be happy if Celtic won a match via a blatant dive, because that's all you'll get from the opposition, "you cheated to win the game", etc. I wouldn't mind if they won the match with a dive, if the opposition were diving as well, because then they'd have no cause to complain (I find this is more in European matches however).
But Rooney's wasn't even debateable, my immediate reaction when watching it as it happened was "Dive". Even if Campbell had made contact (which he didn't), Rooney would have merely fallen over his leg - when he arches his back, jumps about 3 feet in the air and puts his palms to the sky, you know it's a dive.
ninjabreakz, it's nothing to do with hating to see Man Utd do well, in fact I'd rather they did well to make the title race more interesting. But you are having a laugh by saying you're still the team to beat, that's Arsenal, and if you think you won the game today on merit you are deluding yourself IMO. You're not even second best, Chelsea are.