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CHEAT OF THE WEEK 24-1-07
Very soon, the Cheat of the Week panel will once again be getting together to decide who was the biggest cheat of the previous week.
As well as providing our usual brand of no-bullshit, stright down the line exposure of the people who are ruining the beautiful game by constantly cheating, we will be re-launching with a new compere. More on that later.
Our panel of Jeff Winter, Graham Frankland, Dave Easson, Simon Dixon and Steve Goldby provoked a mixed response from the readership last year and just to get in you in the mood for the soon-to-be-released latest edition of Cheat Of The Week, here's the best of the reader feedback from 2006.
From James
Isn't it strange how rarely you nominate Middlesboro candidates for cheat of the week?
How about nominating Steve Gibson for breaking the rules of English football by appointing - and now backing - a manager who does not have the necessary qualifications that are put in place for the profession?
Thanks James. Jeff actually nominated the whole Boro team in Issue 4.
From Billy
Easson sad rednose, the rest of the panel seem incompetent non-achievers.
2004 FA Cup Final referee, top local businessman, celebrity London laywer... you must be on the A-list Billy. Asshole list that is...
From Paul Francis
I am a Cardiff City fan and I think your article on diving etc is brilliant, enough is enough, these tossers are killing the game.
From Ian Gill
It would be easy to nominate Ronaldo but I think the football establishment is to blame for not grasping the nettle. It can punish elbowers shown up on TV, it can send managers 'off' for suggesting to the fourth official the ref got it wrong, it can nominate Zidane for world footballer of the year even after his shameful outburst at the World Cup, it can charge people with bringing the game into disrepute for telling the truth but it wont do anything about cheats. So my nomination is the football establishment for cheating on their responsibilities.
From Martin Eddleston
Rather contentiously I'd like to nominate Christiano Ronaldo for cheat of the season. I know some readers might think this is unfair, so in spirit of compromise we could nominate him for "most misinterpreted by away fans" or even "wankstain". If anyone beats him to the crown this week, nay this season, I'll eat my proverbial.
From Gareth Davies
Christiano Ronaldo - that was the worst dive I have ever seen (v Middlesbrough, 3 December 2006). How the ref missed it - the fucking bastard should be kicked out the English football Leagues. He is a disgrace.
Do you sense a recurring theme here...?
Some extra nominations from Niall Jordan
1: Lee McCullock Wigan versus Sheffield United 16/12/2006
If Juan Pablo Angel's elbow to the chin, of Chris Morgan was bad enough, what about Lee McCullock's even more diabolical clenched fist attack on the self same defender.
McCullock got his just desserts (although a red card would have been more appropriate had the officials "seen" the incident) and Morgan to his credit was big enough and honest enough not to over-react, but at the end of the day, actual bodily harm, is still actual bodily harm and does not belong on a football pitch.
2: Chelsea FC - the whole disgraceful bunch
ie: Newcastle versus Chelsea 20/12/2006
After a week in which the (not so) special one has had to retract his comments about Andy Johnson, (if his comments were indeed a retraction), you would have thought that he would have made sure that his own disreputable bunch of divers and cheats would behave with some measure of decorum, when they played against Newcastle United, last night.
That's what you would have thought and you would have expected of anyone with an ego slightly smaller than the entire Premier League.
However, clearly the phrase "kettles and teapots" is not one that our Jose has ever heard before.
From Arjen Robbins, award winning dive, even though admittedly there appeared to be "some" contact, (I still thought that he must have been hit by a shot gun blast), to the two Chelsea players who moved the free-kick ball two yards forwards onto the 18 yard itself, it is apparent that it is "business as usual" at Stamford Bridge.
I suppose that the most disappointing aspect of Chelsea, is that this is a team with the talent and the ability to succeed without such tactics.
Kindest regards;
Niall
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