Diving is ruining the game...all the fault of the foreigners that have come to the Premier League Foreigners like: M Owen, S Gerrard, Ashley Cole, A Young, Andrew Johnson, C Jenkinson, G Bale, Andy Carroll, Adam Johnson G Agbonlahor D Bent Ahhhhhh....some say...they only learnt it since the foreigners came here...before that no one dived.... so Rodney Marsh, Colin Bell, Stan Bowles and *Francis Lee* weren't renowned for diving? The reason it is such an issue now is that there are approx 20 cameras at all top matches so nothing goes unseen. Back in the day only 4 or 5 matches a week were shown as highlights and there were only 1 or 2 cameras at each game and the technology was poor so they were not able to highlight as easily as today. Diving is a problem but it has always existed and no amount of blaming foreigners will change this fact. *Thanks to humanbeingincroydon for Francis Lee*
apparently Liverpool are the worse for diving,Chelsea were 5th and we were down near the bottom,one of the paper's done a survey on it last week
This was mentioned by Darren Lewis in the 'Whats in the papers today' slot this morning on SSN. He said someone did a survey of last seasons penaltys and found more English players dived than foreign, but didn't declare the source. It was based on SAF's comments consequently proved immediately wrong... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/oct/01/sir-alex-ferguson-sergio-aguero
In lots of cases diving is difficult to call. Take Ivanovic for instance. His dive v Stoke was amongst the most blatant you'll see. However Oscars is less conclusive as it would appear there was contact
To me, a dive is either simulating someone made contact with you OR being touched by the slightest of contact and falling like you've been clattered by Roy Keane. I hate diving, whether it's a Spurs player or opposition and whether they're foreign or English, there shouldn't be a place in the game for it and I'd love to see punishment of a red card for anyone caught diving and if they're not caught by the ref in the game, then the FA should take action, similar to how they do with violent conduct. It ruins the game and in my eyes is the worst show of unsportsmanship possible in football.
