I'm torn on this mate - my initial thought was the same as yours, there's a time and a place for that sort of thing and (GHod bless Timmy Atouba) it isn't when you're the last person before the keeper. However, if you look at the video again, you'll see that nobody in front of him is making themselves available, he really doesn't seem to have a simple pass on, which is why he tries to buy himself some more time....and possibly with a hint of overconfidence after his zidanesque manoeuvre last week. The biggest mistake he made, even bearing in mind that he had a split second to make it, was where he then played the ball blindly. You may say hindsight is a wonderful thing if I suggest I'd have preferred him to kick it out of touch for a corner, but it's a basic that you don't play the ball towards your own area without looking, you play it into one of the other less dangerous zones like into touch or out to the channel - it's the same basic principal as never playing a back pass at goal, always aim wide just in case.
