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Wigan boss Martinez admits telling one of his players to stop diving

Wigan Athletic boss Roberto Martinez admits he's had to tell one of his foreign players to stop diving.

Martinez said he had had to instruct one of his players not to dive.

Martinez said: "I had a player that used to dive a lot - he wasn't British. In Spain, it is not seen as cheating. It is seen as getting something back from the team.

"Here we see it as cheating. I had just signed this player from a Spanish club and the first game he goes past a defender and he goes down easy, and I said 'you can't do that'."

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