I thought what he sais was passionate, but primarily a load of bollocks.
At 'any' level, it is a 'game' first and foremost, and cheating is cheating. In years to come, I won't look back on Ferguson with memories of his bad behaviour creating a legend; I'll look back on him being a classless poor loser who moaned and pressured until he got his own way, such was his entitlement disorder, great record or not.
Bale is a cheat, and no amount of trying to justify cheating does it for me.
The 'edge' is to train harder and try harder. Not to cheat, because winning should not be the be all and end all regardless, but the reward for competing better than the next. If being a modern player means you have to cheat, ban the lot of them, and make the game a game again. The ref might give a foul, but the fans that pay to watch will always know it wasa dive.