Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Neville spoke about this yesterday and made a good point about. In order to get the decision, sometimes, you have to dive and we've seen it before. Players get their shirts dragged and it's not enough for them to tumble over in most cases, but if they don't go over the ref will play on. He went through a serious of clips and made a good point about it. It's not a black and white issue and to be honest, there are more important things in football to worry about.
i dont agree with that. so what, are we supposed to passively accept the fact that diving has taken over our game and do nothing about it? what kind of attitude is that? what are the people at the fa paid to do, sit back, collect their cheques and let the game go into disarray?

we're supposed to be making our game better, not worse. players are supposed to be role models to millions of children worldwide so what kind of defeatist attitude is 'well its happening so we should just accept it'? its completely the last thing we should be doing and the fa should be taking action to stop it. if we let diving go when will it end? snapping legs in half? punching players? racism?

there may be a lot of 'more important' things in football, like financial fair play and making sure prestigious clubs like pompey don't go out of business, but letting standards slip as part of an acceptance philosophy is completely the wrong thing to do. diving is in the spotlight right at this very moment and the fa have the perfect opportunity to prevent it gaining momentum by acting harshly on players they suspect are guilty.