Rashford, Lucas and Sane cheated: Video referees can stop diving
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Swansea coach Paul Clement says Marcus Rashford deceived ref Neil Swarbrick into giving Manchester United a penalty.
There are many names for what we saw last weekend in the Premier League. The diplomats among us might call it "simulation," while the traditionalists would opt for "diving." There was a movement in North America to call it "flopping," which is beautifully descriptive, but ultimately it's "cheating."
Perhaps it's not the worst sort of cheating available. It's not match-fixing or doping. You might think that deliberately smashing an opponent's leg in half is more problematic than diving, and you'd...