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I don't like the rule. But for a player to brag about lying to an official and getting away with it is not acceptable. In the same way it wasn't acceptable when Smith, Warner and Bancroft sandpapered a cricket ball and then went "yeah we did that, and?"

Regardless of Atkinson, who I suspect will get away with it as usual, the FA really ought to come down like a ton of bricks on Sol Bamba for deliberately misleading the referee. Brings the game into disrepute, and to be openly bragging about it shows he clearly has no respect for the rules.

And then the media has a collective hissy fit when FIFA don't employ any English officials at the World Cup like they did this summer.

Can't wait to hear Gary Lineker's thoughts on it after the Gray incident.

Are you Mike Dean in disguise?