Soccer fans applaud players for "crafty play," by which is meant flouncing oneself to the ground to simulate a phantom trip or push in order to induce a ref to throw a penalty flag.
It's not just that it's cheating -- if you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough, as the cynics say. It's that it's a particularly dishonorable and unmanly way of cheating. And yet this is credited as being an important and exciting part of play.
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