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Originally Posted by sherer
I have to say the TV pundits just seem to be going with the current trend. If the England match had been played a few weeks ago, before the Arsenal - Celtic game, then all the TV people would replay it and say there was slight contact and a def pen. As the papers are now saying diving is bad they are having a go at Rooney as that is the flavour of the month.
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They would have said it was a definite penalty because he is a England player and he was playing for England at the time. Sorry but England has a double standard when it's a foreign player diving compared to an English one. You right pre-Celtic they would have dodged the issue or said it was a penalty, they would have been outraged if the opposition did the same thing. This is not because they are following the popular mood, The British Press always feign outrage at diving, rather they are worried about the comparisons with their treatment of Eduardo. Wenger said that the British press react differently if it were Rooney and he is right.
Now they are saying it wasn't a dive but instead of saying it was a definite pen they are saying it wasn't. However Rooney still appealed for the penalty in an attempt to deceive the ref, amounts to the same thing.