On Diving - Part 2

To those who say diving is a world wide problem:

Anecdotal Evidence but...I was a part of Tuggeranong Football Club last year and saw no evidence of diving week after week - nor did I see it in the A League matches I caught on television.

Now, being back in the US and playing every weekend and watching a great many EPL matches and a few MLS matches, I rarely see diving and when you do see it (refernce Nani's actual headbutt and then faked retaliation against Lucas Neil on the weekend) - the divers are lambasted by the fans and the press. (not only did he get a red card for that stunt - but he also got a 3 match ban)

So I'm not sure what football people are tuning in to...maybe it still happens a lot in Serie A or BWINLIGA; but from my actual experience - I hear a lot bandwagon haters who can't back up rampant diving claims with real data.

It should be noted that casual observers should not mistake players going to ground on contact as diving - as any athlete knows, it takes very little contact to bring someone down when they are running at full speed concentrating on a ball at their feet.

So maybe some people quit on the game too easily...if they truly loved football, they should play it to their own standard, hold others to that standard, and let the unscrupulous wallow in their own shiat and be properly hated by lovers of the game.