Accusations Of Diving Not Well Received

11 April 2011 11:35
There will always be differences of opinion when it comes to fouls that turn the game Saint Johnstone manager Derek McInnes left Danny Swanson without a name as he accused the Dundee United player of diving which resulted in a red card being shown to Steven Anderson in the 15th-minute of Saturday's game. McInnes stating he was "100% sure" the United player dived after watching replays of the incident. Of course, the right of reply has to go to Swanson who defended himself against allegations of cheating, Swanson claims he was not guilty and said Anderson was lucky to still be on the pitch anyway after committing two earlier fouls, one of which resulted in a yellow card inside 55 seconds.  Swanson said: "He did catch me. It was his third tackle and I thought he could have been away for the first or the second one. I kind of read him coming in and took a fall. I wouldn't say I dived. I thought he did catch me. I have been knocked, I felt a contact and went down. I knocked it far in front of me, I saw the leg and went over it. The gaffer called it before the game, he said that if you get running at them someone will get sent off. That's what I did and that's what happened. I don't want to get people sent off but I want to do as much to help my team as possible. My game is to run at players, commit them and let them bring me down. If not I go through. As I say, I don't want to see people sent off but that's football. I've been sent off in the past for things when I didn't deserve it. To be fair to him, he didn't moan at me. He said 'You've dived there' but I told him he caught me and shrugged it off. The St Johnstone players were more interested in the referee instead of me. It was a red card and it changed the game."

Source: FOOTYMAD