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Arsene Wenger: 'Diving players must be suspended'

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger urges the Premier League to introduce a panel to punish players who dive.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has called for the Premier League to introduce a panel of experts to suspend players who dive.

The Frenchman believes that the current trend of going down too easily is severe enough for officials to take new steps to prevent players from cheating, and he believes that bans are the only answer.

"We should punish diving after the game," Wenger told reporters. "The problem will be to decide when it was obvious or not because sometimes it is not obvious.

"There should be a panel and the most suited to this are people who have an experience in the game. They should punish only the obvious cases, not mixed ones.

"Naming those guilty alone doesn't work. You have to suspend the players. I don't know how long for, it depends, but the only way that the players will stop doing it is if they feel they can get punished."

Wenger's words come after Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claimed that there was a campaign to persuade referees to punish his players for diving.

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