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This short news item from Channel 9 has some interesting notes about diving in football.

Football dive cheats exposed

The German sportswear companies Puma and Adidas are to end a feud started 60 years ago by their founding brothers.

Adi and Rudolf Dassler started making sports shoes together in their mother's wash-room in the 1920s. They fell out during World War II, probably over political differences, and founded firms on either side of a river in southern Germany.

On Monday 21 September, employees of both companies will shake hands and then play a football match.

The Australian men's football team has reached an all-time high of No.14 in the world in the latest FIFA rankings released on Wednesday.