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MNF: Jamie Carragher and Alan Pardew discuss some high-profile penalty incidents from the weekend

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Jamie Carragher and Alan Pardew discuss some high-profile penalty incidents from the weekend. Is it time for video referees?

Jamie Carragher and Alan Pardew discuss some high-profile penalty incidents from the weekend on Monday Night Football.

Swansea were punished by a harsh penalty in first-half injury time against Manchester United when Marcus Rashford latched onto Jesse Lingard's through ball and nicked the ball past Fabianski as he dived at his feet, but the striker appeared to engineer contact and went down easily.

There was a similar incident in Middlesbrough's 2-2 draw with Manchester City as Leroy Sane appeared to be already falling as he went down in the box under a challenge from Marten de Roon.

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The last incident - described by Arsene Wenger as a "soft" penalty - came in the north London derby when Tottenham striker Harry Kane went down in the penalty area after contact from Gabriel.

Former Crystal Palace manager Pardew thinks it is time for video referees to be introduced.

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"These incidents should be outlawed and the only way to outlaw them is to have video referees.

It's a part of the game that we all want to see the back of and the only way to see the back of it is the referees calling it right every time and then they wouldn't succumb to this diving."

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He added: It's a delicate area. I personally think, and Fifa are talking about doing it at the World Cup, if you have a video referee and he calls that dive correctly every time then I think it will come out of the game."

Watch Jamie Carragher and Alan Pardew debate diving on Monday Night Football by hitting play on the video at the top of the page.

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