Robben - "I'm a sh*tbag"

[smithdown]

Robben vows to shake off 'diver' tag next season

 

Arindam Rej

Saturday May 6, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

Arjen Robben made a promise yesterday to not dive next season. The Dutchman has been criticised for going to ground too easily, particularly against Liverpool in February when José Reina raised his hand, while Didier Drogba's recent tumbling has further damaged Chelsea's reputation for fair play.

"Those things happened," said Robben. "Diving has been a very big issue this season, I think. Everyone has his opinion about it. I have mine. You have yours. I don't want to look back. I want to look forward. Next season I won't be in the headlines for diving again. That's a promise. Next year you won't write about me diving again."

Robben said the regularity with which he fell last season was because of his mental state, created by bad experiences in 2004-05.

"If you look back to the season before this, I had three injuries," he said. "I think people forget that sometimes. At that time I had comments like: 'You have to jump sometimes' and 'you have to avoid getting kicked' because I broke my foot three times. Sometimes you just jump out of the way. Sometimes maybe the style of jumping or falling is not the nicest but I haven't been kicked this season and that's a good thing. I'm not a diver. I know that. Next season I'll just carry on the way I play and I won't change my game at any time."

 

ere

 

 

His mental state must be a worry after the way he rolled about to get Reina sent off but then he was obviously protecting his foot again.

[ManxRed]

What a grade A c*nt.

[Bootle Buck]

Doesn't he know that Lying is bad for you. Why it's turned him into an ugly, balding, middle-aged scumbag at the age of 22. At this rate he will look like this by the time he is 25.

 

Edited May 8, 2006 by Bootle Buck

[stressederic]

Doesn't he know that Lying is bad for you. Why it's turned him into an ugly, balding, middle-aged scumbag at the age of 22. At this rate he will look like this by the time he is 25.

 

 

Is Murph going to mind you using his photo?