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17th Dec 2014

The ‘Fallon d’Floor’ poll for dive of the year is just great

Six enter, no one will leave standing

Sean Nolan

A much closer contest than the actual Ballon d’Or.

The brainchild of some clever people on Reddit, this year the first annual ‘Fallon d’Floor’ award is being awarded. As the name suggests, they have selected six of the worst dives of the year and you get to vote right here on which is the most despicable.

Among the nominees are Arjen Robben’s penalty box theatrics that enraged Mexico at the World Cup and Luis Suarez’ playacting after he took a chunk out of Giorgio Chiellini at the same tournament.

A more recent entry is Cristiano Ronaldo’s flop against Celta Vigo earlier this month (below)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poXI–gTT6w

… but surely nobody can beat Leeds’ Adryan’s effort in November

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ec3RFT_lA

We look forward to the winner stumbling up the steps to recieve the award.

 

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