There has been much talk this last week about players in the Premiership faking injuries, and diving to get their team a free kick or even a penalty.
Liverpool’s Luis Suarez is guilty of this, as are almost all the players in the Premiership.
Here is what Arsenals manager Arsene Wenger had to say about the Uruguayan’s dive last week.
“Suarez got the penalty last weekend … it was no penalty.”
“Nobody touched him. Where they go overboard is that nobody touched him. I can understand if they push the ball too far but when no one touches him … Then, when they roll down the sock, take the shin pad out like he has been kicked like mad.
It’s a bit overboard. Everyone who has played football can understand they try to win the penalty but when he goes completely, afterwards, to get a bit more … we don’t need that.”
Then there was Gervinho in his first match in England giving Newcastle’s Joey Barton a little slap to have Barton go to ground as if he had just been sucker punched.
“Gervinho had a bad response to provocation from our friend Mr Barton,” Wenger said. “He was shocked because he felt he didn’t do a lot. But I think he learned his lesson in the first game, which is better than after 20. It’s better to know what you are facing. If you want to play abroad, and work abroad, then you have to adapt to the local culture.”
Watching tonight’s great match with Chelsea, and Napoli I couldn’t get over the biggest diver of all time Chelsea’s Didier Drogba went down without even being touched.
Click here to see the videoDrogba the diver
It is time to put a stop to all this, and even if the referee misted it on the pitch the FA could be given the power to suspend players for this kind of behaviour.
