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FOR the past couple of days, Arjan de Zeeuw has been showered with praise by his peers, who are amazed that he could take a faceful of spittle from El-Hadji Diouf and turn the other cheek.
'He deserves a medal,' said Newcastle skipper Alan Shearer after Diouf spat at De Zeeuw following a failed penalty appeal. 'Some players would have done a five or sixgame ban for actually smacking him one.' The thought did cross even de Zeeuw's mind. 'A lot of people have said to me:"you handled it really well",' said Portsmouth's captain. 'I sometimes think I should have handled it another way.See the full content of this document
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Raging de Zeeuw Felt Like Punching Diouf for Spitting
Maybe I should have punched him. But I stayed on the pitch and w...
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