Torres is a floppy-haired, diving, git
So I finally made it to Anfield for the first time yesterday, for the Liverpool/Fulham Premiership game. Now, I’m neither a Fulham nor Liverpool supporter: my wife’s uncle has a Fulham season ticket but couldn’t make the game, so I went with my father-in-law. The atmosphere at Anfield is really great – you can see why call it a fortress, and the sight of the Kop from the visitor end was something else – especially with a capacity crowd of around 45,000 around them. It made up for the bitter cold that blew in around half an hour into the match.
The match itself was pretty good for a 0-0 draw. Fulham outplayed Liverpool during the first half, and Rafa must have given the home side a good talking to during the break as it was more even the second half. Little Andy Johnson was the man of the match for me (it’s amazing how he holds his own against guys much bigger than him) but Reiera was pretty good too.
Only one thing let down the game, and that was Fernando Torres. What is it about imported players from southern Europe (think Ronaldo too here). Torres is really talented, and made some clever little passes, but why does the overpaid tosser like to munch quite so much grass? I haven’t seen so much diving since the Beijing Olympics! Never mind the cynical ones where he was looking for penalties, the worst was when he was at least ten feet from any Fulham player, and he literally threw himself into the mud. Paintsil’s complaint earned him a sneaky headbutt from Torres while the ref wasn’t looking.
It disappoints me to see how brazen the cheating can be amongst some of these guys – I can’t imagine doing that in front of 45,000 people, even if most of them this time would have turned a blind eye. And Torres is not nearly as good-looking as he obviously thinks he is. He should get a proper haircut, and stop cheating so much.
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