Forget diving - creating a foul is now the finest in modern English craft

The dive itself is an unsophisticated relic relied upon only when there has been a gross failure of imagination, writes Larry Ryan.

Forget diving - creating a foul is now the finest in modern English craft

It is a mark of the grand old institution’s powers of survival that on the day the Premier League ended it also truly found itself again.

Manchester City might have wrapped up the title race at Old Trafford last Sunday, but we also got back in touch with everything that made The Greatest League in the World (TGLITW) great.

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