Soundoff: Did Fernando Torres Dive?

Hopefully we can all agree that Chile’s Marco Estrada did not deserve to be sent off for the above incident. Even though he was. Seems that whatever contact he made with Spain’s Fernando Torres – if any at all – was accidental. So referee Marco Rodriguez got it wrong.


The only question for me: How complicit was Fernando Torres complicit in this unjust sending off? Did Torres just trip over his own feet, or did he dive? The only evidence we have is the YouTube video above, and the .gif below:




I’d say the .gif is the more incriminating for Torres, but that may be due to the fact it has him stuck in some sort of time loop, falling down for ever. The YouTube video suggests to me that Torres ran acorss Estrada’s path accidentally, causing El Nino to innocently trip over his own feet. What do you think?

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