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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul Wilson

Dive, dive, dive

What a surprise. Arjen Robben has just been booked for diving. He's having a great World Cup, Holland are two goals up against the Ivory Coast and we've only had just over half an hour of the game, but old habits clearly die hard.

Talking of dying hard, Robben's expressions of disbelief when the referee reaches for his top pocket and points the card in his direction's make Bruce Willis's acting look like Larry Olivier.

All it needs now is for Didier Drogba to do the same at the other end and Chelsea can claim a full house, and this time (don't worry Chelsea fans, I'm on your side really) it can't possibly be Jose Mourinho's fault. Can it?

Just wait a second though... the Ivorians have just pulled a goal back - a good one too. This is shaping up into one of the better group games. Maybe Robben always knew it would be tight and reckoned there was always a chance the referee would not notice.

Well, it worked for Peter Crouch after all.

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