Wigan boss Jewell: Let's bring in diving
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Wigan boss Jewell: Let's bring in diving
tribalfooball.com - December 05, 2006
Wigan boss Paul Jewell believes encouraging players to make the most of challenges by diving would actually help to eradicate the problem.
Last weekend, there were two high-profile incidents involving Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo at Middlesbrough and also Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky in their match against Tottenham.
"I might be the only fellow in the world that thinks 'Why don't we just allow it?'," said Jewell.
"The pubs are now open 24 hours a day and everyone was worried people were going to be drunk on the streets but there are less drunks on the streets now than what there was when they closed at 11 o'clock.
"So just allow it. Stop everyone talking about it. One week you would get away with it, the next you wouldn't. It would stop it in my opinion.
"No-one likes cheating but I think the best way to get rid of it is to say 'Okay, if you get away with it, you get away with it' because one week you will be unlucky.
"What will happen is that one week a player will dive, it will be all over television. The next Saturday the same player will go down and the referee will think 'Hold on, he has dived', and it will later be shown he has been fouled.
"To me it will even itself out."
And he claimed managers, players and supporters were happy when decisions went for them and only complained when opponents were successful.
"People say it is cheating but if you ask any supporter if one of our players goes down in the box in the last minute and you need a penalty to stay in the league or win a cup you know what they are going to say," he added.
"I might get lambasted for that but it is the way it is. We are all trying to get an edge." -
this is call "yi du gong du"
use poision to kill off another poison
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but fa won't allow it that for sure
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i think hes just being sarcastic, with divers getting away and putting the games in dispute. probably just a jab at the English FA and Blatter..