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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Unfortunately frequent diving is part of the game. Not sure if you guys have watched many games but there have been very few dives in the first 30 minutes of the NZ-ITA game.
It definitely looked like a foul on De Rossi but I think he took a dive just to ensure a call.
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I think that would depend on how you would define "dive". The Italians have embellished pretty much all contact to the point of absurdity. The few elbows that were taken were hardly worthy of the result. The Canvarro (sp?) 'winded' episode was a tap. de Rossi was held and it would have been a 50/50 call (that marginal holding happens all the time) that I could have agreed with without too much debate - until the pathetic dive at the end.
I think somebody should come in studs showing on de Rossi and show him (and the rest of the Italians) what a real foul is.