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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke
Same here, I don't get outraged by it. I blame the referees and assistants for allowing this nonsense to go unpunished. How many times do you see a player go down in the box only for a referee to wave play on instead of booking him for diving (surely if it's not a penalty then by default it's a dive)? How many times do you see a player stay on his feet when being pulled back and not get the penalty?
If refs took action it'd soon stop.
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Correct me if I'm wrong here CB, but over here at least didn't the FA get rid of the rules regarding booking a player deemed to have dived, and essentially leave it up to a referee's discretion and recognise diving as part of the game?