The picture above shouldn't really need much comment. What cries out for comment is the reaction of the papers to it. There isn't a lot of dissent from the view that it is a dive, how could there be? But take a look at the headlines:"Liverpool ride their luck but remain stuck in the mire - Steven Gerrard inspired a recovery..."And my personal favourite, the most ill-timed article ever in The Times:
"Benitez hoping luck has changed"
"Liverpool saved from humiliation by Gerrard"
"David Ngog qualities can help win over doubters"And the article goes on at great length about him, praises his performance against Birmingham and then, almost as an afterthought it would seem, a final paragraph which mentions the dive without mentioning the word "dive" or the word "cheat."
I'm not even sure I need to point out the difference in reaction between that and what would happen if a Man Utd player did something similar. Ngog dives, and the headlines tell us how inspirational Gerrard was? Ngog dives and Liverpool are "lucky" not "cheats?" And considering the amount of luck Liverpool, even this season, get, to have a headline hoping for a change in their luck without irony is an absolute joke.
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