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ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

But what they do is they become blind when the decision goes their way, when their player takes a dive, right?

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

And they justify this by saying, well, if I come out afterwards and I admit, yeah, we got lucky because so-and-so took a dive.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

First of all, the player is going to hate me because he says next time it's going to be harder for me to get a penalty when I am fouled.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

Secondly, referees are going to be like, aha, I admitted, this guy admitted that his player dived.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

So that's going to come into their heads, right?

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

Do you buy this explanation?

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

So you're right, either Inter have to ban him or he can play the next game.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

So they used to have a policy like they had here in England.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

I don't think they still have it in England except for certain cases where...

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

if you are found to have taken a dive in judgment, there was a case years ago which totally infuriated Arsene Wenger.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

I forget who it was.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

Yeah, that rings a bell.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

But basically, they could go back and they could ban you retroactively.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

They said with the introduction of VAR, they said, well, this is no longer needed.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

No longer needed because there was a can of worms because, you know, you use it.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

The most egregious cases like this one are very obvious.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

And you could also say he's bringing the game into disrepute by celebrating.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

But there were a lot of kind of minor ones where it is more of a judgment call, right?

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

So they said, let's just shift this all to VAR and let them sort it out.

ESPN FC
Gab & Juls Show: Controversy as Inter beat Juventus

I would like to see a little amendment.