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Arjen Robben is known to be one of the game’s most notorious divers and the incident involving him and Spanish goalkeeper Pepe Reina when the Dutch had the then Liverpool goalkeeper after dramatically falling to the ground.
Earlier, Reina had committed a horrendous challenge on Eidur Gudjohnsen and was rightfully brandished a yellow-card. However, this was not all that happened as the yellow card soon followed with a direct red card for the goalkeeper, and then a further batch for three matches.
Later, he spoke about the incident stating, "I was wrong. I deserved a yellow card for the foul on Gudjohnsen outside of the area. I have to admit that it was a 'pincer' tackle, but I did not deserve the red I got.”
"I went back to the goal area and the referee called me 30 yards to show me the yellow card instead of just showing it to me when the incident happened. During those 30 metres, Robben started making comments to me and when I pushed him off he threw himself to the ground.”
"The consolation for me was that all the press took my side and criticised the Dutchman [Robben] for diving.
Watch the incident here:
