CRAIG GORDON believes Eduardo's two-match ban for diving against Celtic was "worth it" and questioned if there would be a similar furore if a Scotland player did the same to earn a World Cup play-off spot.
Uefa yesterday handed Gunners striker Eduardo the suspension for "deceiving the referee" when he fell to the ground to win a penalty in last week's Champions League play-off second leg at The Emirates Stadium.
The Scotland keeper said: "It is infuriating when you don't touch someone and they have won a penalty, and himself and his club a place in the group stages of the Champions League.
"That is worth £16m and he has probably got close to £100,000 in bonuses, so you can see what it means to players and why someone would do that, to win a game by any means possible.
"It's not nice but I don't see how we can stamp it out of the game.He got a two-match ban. Is it worth it for getting to the group stages where they will possibly progress from that? It probably is."
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