Oleksandr Kucher Enters The Diving Hall Of Fame

By: chris | October 29th, 2009

When Dr. Paul Morris laid out the ways and means of diving, giving referees the necessary tools to catch the culprit (failure thus far), he forgot two very, very important indicators:

i. The delay between perceived foul and the criminal going to ground.
ii. The “look back”. We’ll call this The Morten Gamst Pedersen (below).

Oleksandr Kucher hit the classic heights of overachieverdom by nailing both in Shaktar’s win over Dynamo Kyiv. Ognjen Vukojevic gave him the kindest of love taps and Kucher went down, down, down. But not before turning around, checking out just who’d hit him, and then getting the go ahead from his inner decision maker. Vukojevic got the absurd red card, and the rest is diving history.

Clearly he and Morten should be forced to fight to the death with pillows.

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Ryan McManus

BULLSHIT!
Yevy

To be fair to Kucher this was a synchronized dive - Darijo Srna's arms in the air sprint for the referee is despicable and just as responsible for getting his international teammate Vukojevic sent off. Srna is a talented player, but as a serial simulator, referee intimidator and time waster he is impossible to root for unless he plays for your team. He even had the nerve to congratulate the ref on a job well done in the post-match interview.
Oli

If hes criminal, the Ref's gotta be charged, tried and sentanced too. Red Card? Wow.
laurie

What's criminal is that it worked.
Luka

That's criminal.