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Tottenham's Andros Townsend apologises for diving

30 September 2013 - 00:41

Tottenham Hotspur winger Andros Townsend has revealed that he apologised to the referee having been booked for diving during the club's 1-1 draw with Chelsea at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

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Townsend was awarded a yellow card as he fell to the ground in search of a foul from Frank Lampard, for which he was booked by referee Mike Dean. <br /><br />Regarding the diving incident, he told The Guardian: <em>"It was definitely a yellow card. I said to the referee at half-time that, as I have come inside, the leg was there and [Lampard] has pulled out at the last minute but I still went over, so it was a deserved yellow card. <br /><br />"I have got to kick it out of my game. Everything happens so fast. I didn't have time to react to him pulling out at the last second. It's sort of instinct. You make mistakes and that dive was a mistake.<br /><br />"I apologised to the referee and said I thoroughly deserved it and, hopefully, I won't do that again. It was a deserved booking. If there's contact, it's not a dive but he [Lampard] pulled out here."</em>

Written by Sri Aswin