We will continue to see diving and cheating until the football authorities have the balls to do something about it. How about them giving any player who dives a five match ban and big fine - it would soon stop.
It's becoming a joke.
Heard some debate a few days ago on 606 I think where the guys on the show, Roberts and Reid??, were basically saying going down is "professional".
It's accepted by the players and alot of fans unfortunately.
Even commentators say "he should've gone down there". Tbh if a Newcastle or England played dived to win a penalty I'm happy he's done it to win us the game, but it's so rife in the game now and nothings being done about it that not cheating almost seems like cheating yourself. I would love to see a 6 game ban giving to a player that deliberately cheated and it definitely would quickly put a stop to it all. Why the authorities won't do this and would rather it carried on I do not know
They need to have a panel to ref the games afterwards to log what actually happened.Then ban the players when they reach a certain amount of retrospective cards, every ban you get you don't get paid, 3 week ban means you lose 3 weeks money. The refs too, they should get points awarded for each decision, ones with the least amount of points get x amount of games ban depending on how bad it is.
If you did that at the moment no team in the land would have a squad big enough to play the fixtures, there wouldn't be any officials to ref the games and eventually they would all stop cheating when their teams were playing 6 versus 9 one week and as happened in a Scottish game a few years ago there was a guy from the crowd running the line.
Then when it goes bust we can start again and have the real game back
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