World Cup Divers a Disgrace

World Cup Divers a Disgrace

I am fed up and tired of seeing the disgraceful diving that is going on in football. Grown men - big, powerful grown men falling in apparent agony to the floor as if they had been shot. It was so obvious yestarday too in the Brazil v Chile game and it was well managed by England's only representative left in the World Cup, Howard Webb. However I know that other referees will fall for the blatant dives in such important games.

Three men in particular struck me as cheats yestarday. Maicon, Lucio and Luis Fabiano.

Maicon is a massive man. Yestarday when running close to two Chile players he simply jumped to the floor. Replays show that at the time the two Chile players were about a foot away from Maicon and didn't touch him at all. Maicon was complaining on the floor - seemingly convinced that he had been hacked down. The referee knew that it was a dive and waved play on. But I say surely if they are allowed to get away with persistant diving the cheats will continue to do it. The referees are too afraid to caution the big name players. Understandabley, they want to avoid controversy, but if it isn't stopped now, I fear it never will.

Lucio, also a massive man and delivers committed and crunching tackles to his opponents, yet when he feels the slightest of touches to him, he too falls to the ground and in the latest Brazil game it was as clear as day that he was once again trying to cheat the referee.

Fabiano was just a small one yesterday, but it annoys me because so many International footballers do it. A tiny bit of contact to the back whilst jumping for the ball, and Fabiano clutches his face as if he had been punched in the mouth.

I absolutely hate it when footballers do this, and I know it isn't just the players named above, but the referees and FIFA need to clamp down on this and punish players more severely -make an example of someone. Oh yes, and bring in technology to the game, so we know for sure.