Stayed on his feet, went for the ball, soon as he couldnt he gave the ref no choice to call the pull. Its both. He got pulled, he still flopped like a fish lol.
A succinct microcosm of most all of this nonsense week in, week out.
And there, again, is the crux of it all. If officials would do their job properly to start with, players wouldn't have to accentuate blatant fouls/ impediments against them.
If they don't, they don't get the free-kick/ penalty and the offender gets away scot-free. They do, and people madly scream
'DIVER!' Completely ignoring the blatant offence against them. They are literally damned if they do, damned if they don't.
If folk can't tell the difference between players having to sell the foul against them to get any justice from it, as opposed to a player who either goes down untouched or initiates their own contact to try deceive the officials, then that's either their base ignorance. Or they have a blatant agenda against a particular player. (See the blatantly racist, xenophobic English football media who slam those dirty foreigners like Salah as diving and ruing our game. But when it comes to a good old Englishman like a Kane, he's savvy and streetwise.). You can't call someone a 'diver' who is legit fouled in the first place but isn't getting the decision unless he accentuates the foul.
And they then go after the COMPLETELY wrong target. Which shouldn't be the players. But the officiating. Or rather P poor lack thereof which has brought this around. Players shouldn't be placed in this position but they are weekly by incompetent officiating.
To not acknowledge that is to both not understand how today's game is and not understand the rules and how badly they are implemented by the officials.