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Good post. Attackers diving is low risk / potentially high reward.

I'm not saying it was or wasn't a pen, but there was an alternative for Ronaldo. An alternative that was the norm in the first 130 years of football, until the post-Klinsmann era of "going to ground". For CR to use his power, reactions and balance to beat the slight coming together, and go on...

"Whoever initiates contact" is the fouler.

Because it was their beau CR?

Agree with you. But do you feel like we're swimming against the new tide of opinion? Even old school players who would've confronted a diver, like Shearer and all the others, justify all pen winning dives with: "A challenge the defender didn't need to make" "Well there was contact" "Naive by...

Great analysis then on ITV, explaining on how decisions should be decided every time. If the attacker initiates contact, for example by dangling a leg out to touch the defender, it's a foul by them and should be a freekick to the defending team. A simple as that. In reverse, a penalty. NOT...