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Divin Diving: An Example Of Deviance In Sports

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Over the past years there have been several incidents of racism thrown at players, either from the fans or fellow players. For example when there were bananas thrown on the pitch at Dani Alves, referring to him as a ‘monkey’ this sort of behaviour is not tolerated at any level of the sport and in England the FA spent millions of pounds on anti-racism campaigns such as ‘kick it out’. Then there is also player to player racist abuse such as when Luis Suarez picked up a ban for racial abuse thrown at Patrice Evra during a match between Liverpool and Manchester United. There has also been incidents of fan to fan racial abuse for example when a small number of Chelsea fans did not allow a black man on a train due to his race. However Chelsea as a club have come out and said that this kind of behaviour is not at all acceptable and there will be repercussions for those involved. This gives the sport a bad representation and a bad image which would lead to negative media reports and less viewers.
Deviance in sport
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An example of a player who is well known for his diving is Netherlands and Bayern Munich star Arjen Robben. The biggest incident was in the world cup against Mexico and the referee fell for this act of cheating and awarded the penalty which resulted in a goal and Mexico departing form the world cup. Although this will have an effect on Robben as he will be known for his diving and the fact he

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