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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK
You say that as if he constantly dives every match. I can't remember too many occasions last season, or the season before of him diving like Eduardo did.
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I think part of Eduardo's dive is that he was so bad at it. Ideally the players want to go down after
some content has been made. Ronaldo did dive quite a bit, sometimes blatantly. I don't know if he ever did one in Europe but you can bet Uefa wanted to keep out of it, not out of some sort of United favouritism, but just because Eduardo is only the second player ever to be punished by Uefa for diving. They just don't do it.
Which makes this case all the more confusing. Why single out one player, is he really only the second player to get away with diving? No. There were dives in the Europa League matches the day after, didn't Ashley Young dive? Is Uefa investigating? No.
So there is no consistency. The only thing I can think of was the media uproar over the dive meant Uefa needed to appear to be doing something.