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I also wonder if he'd be so anti-diving if it was a little less obvious. This anti-diving sentiment comes and goes. Generally there will be a lot of dives every weekend and it will be justified somehow - there was contact, he didn't dive he was just making sure the ref knew he was fouled, when...

http://youtu.be/_3Na5BLnMwM looks like he made a meal of this to me. (Though it looks like there's only one digit on his shirt, so that might not be Zaha) http://youtu.be/LVs0DZT4JjM they replay his dive three times (70mins on the match clock, early in the video)

The problem with providing evidence of his diving, is you will disagree with it. Like Jason Roberts yesterday saying "there was contact" with pogrebnyak's dive.

If you are booked for diving, it is recorded as a caution for "unsporting behaviour". I could go through the records and show you almost all of Zaha's 10 yellow cards last season were for "unsporting behaviour". The problem is that unsporting behaviour also covers fouls, handballs, shirt...

I think Buckley goes to ground easily - the penalty he won v palace for the 1-1 was a dive (like Zaha's was for theirs), v Millwall the crowd were crying foul everytime he went to ground and I'm pretty sure the ref mostly got it right when not giving him free kicks. KLL made a meal of the...

What I've seen of palace I would not call them competitive. I see a team that has lucked out playing top teams before they've got into a grove so they don't make their complete dominance show in the score line. I don't recall any impressive defensive work to keep Spurs and Utd out, just those...