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Wenger wants refs to ban divers

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has called on referees to stamp out diving by suspending guilty players.
 
Chelsea's Shaun Wright-Phillips is the latest Premiership player to be accused of diving in order to get an opposition player sent off.

And Wenger said: "We have to fight it and there is only one way to punish people diving obviously: suspension.

"Once it is in the game it is difficult to get it out. Once a guy knows he might be punished he will not dive."

Wright-Phillips was accused of diving in Chelsea's 1-0 FA Cup quarter-final win on Wednesday and Newcastle defender Robbie Elliott was sent off.

"My view without going into any individual case is that we are all as managers to fight against it," Wenger said.

"Sometimes the players dive just because they pushed the ball too far and the only way to get something out of the situation is to dive.

"We are all managers who can never say that one of our players has not dived. Nobody can say that in our league.

"I can say that when my team are not involved I am 100% against it."

Arsenal were at the centre of a diving controversy two seasons ago when midfielder Robert Pires won a penalty against Portsmouth to seal a home draw.

africas seed:
i totally agree. suspend the bitches. diving does not belong in the sport and is what n. americans hate so much bout it. i dont even know wehre diving starts. do they like teach them when they get to the pros or sumthin cuz when i played soccer for like 10 yrs when i was young noone would dive or doing anything like that. there should be suspensions to prevent diving and incidents like the one rivaldo had at the last world cup. pathetic display of acting. i say give them a warning obviously first but then after a certain number of warnings like 2 or so suspend them.

Jome:
Says the man with Pires and Reyes on his team.  :grumpy:

Sweet & Tender Hooligan:
For once i agree with Wenger. Coming from a person who supports a team with Petrov in it may sound strange. But doesnt a blatant dive usually warrant a yellow card anyway?....

Mac 10 †:

--- Quote from: Jome on March 24, 2006, 01:21:30 PM ---Says the man with Pires and Reyes on his team.  :grumpy:

--- End quote ---

i don't think reyes is much of a diver, he gets kicked off the park most of the time.

pires i agree with tho, especially that pen he "won" kicking stephanovic (sp?) i think it was.

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