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“I can’t say whether these guys were acting under orders or not. Perhaps it showed that they knew they were playing a good side and wanted to take advantage in any way they could, but what was curious to me was that both these players were English. Micah Richards (Song) and Gareth Barry (Arteta) engaged in the kind of behaviour that commentators would refer to as ‘continental’ had it been a foreign player that did it. So let’s remember that next time anyone tries to talk about diving and simulation and how it’s crept into the game because of imported players. It was outright cheating and gamesmanship yet not a word was said about it.”
—Arseblog
