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Message: [QUOTE="Astroboy, post: 2311120, member: 1994"] No not suggesting we invented it, just that it's pretty widely used here (I know it is in other places too). You're right the divers and cheats are not "all of football" but they give it a pretty bad name, that and the fact that you can cop a penalty and a send-off, which changes the whole game, for getting hit by the ball. It's just opposite to the Aussie state of mind. That's why RL has the rule about the ball "not being played at" which doesn't unfairly penalise players not at fault. It seems you have to be more of a ballerina than an athlete to succeed at soccer. Maybe that's why the Matildas do better at it than the Socceroos. [/QUOTE]

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