You have probably seen the moment from Sunday's match between Arsenal and Manchester City when Mesut Ozil 'bottled' a challenge with the City goalkeeper Willy Cabellero.

Running through on goal, the ball ran away from Ozil and he appeared to prematurely concede that the chance had gone.

A backlash inevitably followed, with Gary Neville leading the condemnation of the supposedly 'soft' Arsenal midfielder. An enraged Neville tore into Ozil on Sky Sports and said: "Ozil goes for a ball and bottles the challenge when his manager’s life is on the line. Arsene Wenger deserves Ozil to go in for that 50-50."

As football offences in this country go, what Ozil did is up there with the most heinous. Worse than swapping shirts at half-time or not clapping the fans at the end of a match, though probably not as bad as a potentially leg-breaking tackle.

Yes, in the hurly burly of 'the best league in the world', many deem a shirked challenge worse than leaping off the ground and potentially hurting a fellow professional.