Tony Pulis has called for a three game ban for those caught diving or "simulation as the FA prefer to call it.
A decade or so ago diving was considered the trademark of Johnny Foreigner, the good old British players would not coutenance throwing themselves to the floor unless they were scythed down in the process and then only when they were certain that they couldnt get up.
How things have changed, the premier league is full of players of all nationalities who fall over if an opposition player so much as looks at them, but its now becoming too much of a joke and I agree with Pulis who saw Chelsea try to kid the ref on a number of occasions in the game with his team Stoke at Stamford Bridge.
Personally I think Pulis has a point about drastic action needing to be taken, he is right that players getting caught getting bans will go a long way to putting a stop to it, personally I think with TV coverage at the top level being what it is, there is no reason why the divers should not be dealt with retrospectively, have an FA Divers panel for want of a better word, whose job it is to view footage of the weekends games and consider whether players have been fouled or merely thrown themselves to the ground in contencious incidents, such is the pace of the game that its a tough ask for a referee to get it right all of the time, at real time pace many look fouls but arent.
get the divers panel into play and perhaps inroduce bans and it would sonn stamp it out, I would give first time offenders a one match ban, second time offenders a two match ban and keep the count rising, see how quickly those managers who stand on TV and talk about how they would bnever condone their players diving stamp it out when they are faced with a couple of players out banned for doing so,.
Im sure there will be some that will say football is a game played at all levels its unfair to penalise Premier players when for instance players in League Two or lower wont be under such scrutiny, true it will be unfair, but then again I have yet to see goal line technology in Sunday Morning football, that doesnt mean it shouldnt be brought in in the premier, lets make things a fair and level playing field in the premier, Im personally sick to death or the diving cheats.