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Originally Posted by Damien
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.
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I cannot remember one time Ronaldo blatantly dived last season or the season before, not one anywhere near as blatant as Eduardo's or Eboue's. His reputation goes before him with the vast majority of people even though he has cut it out of his game. He did/does go down easily, which is why i said in my last post UEFA have caused more problems in the long run. When does going down become a dive? Ronaldo goes down easily after contact from other players, but can you ban someone who has had contact from another player? Can you ban someone for jumping away from a tackle with little or no contact? If they're going to ban players for these things then nearly every player will be banned because they all do it.