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Published 22:24 26 Apr 2017 BST
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Two seconds later, he's alright.
Then... he's not.
Listen, professional footballers - as a collective - are probably given too hard a time. They earn a lot of money so, for some reason, that makes people believe they're there to be shot at.
Then you have incidents like this. Complete non-incidents, or at least they should be, and it does nothing but leave a sour taste in people's mouths.
A player getting hit on the shoulder and actually pretending like he was hit on the face. Actually pretending like he was hurt. Actually trying to get an opposition player in trouble - when the game was all but won.
This is pathetic.
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