For me the Robben "trip" is a penalty. Whether the contact made was enough to actually force Robben to swandive to the turf with an expression of pain on his face is doubtful, but his run was impeded. Soft call but a penalty.


The flopping/diving in soccer is what's drove me away from the sport in recent years, although I've learnt that unless you go to ground, often you will not get legitimate calls that you should get. There is no advantage to staying on your feet when clipped so why not go to ground?


Rolling around in faux pain to attempt to con the referee into producing a card for your opponent though...

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