Aqua Sports and Amateur Dramatics

Diving is the curse of the modern game. Cheating is bad enough in itself but worse still when it goes rewarded!

Players these days seem to hit the floor quicker than a bucket and a mop and the Beautiful Game is being transformed before our eyes, into something akin to those lace and corset dramas of a bygone era - ladies feinting and swooning all-round, at the mere hint of a manly presence.

But all is fair in love and war and football falls somewhere in between the two. As long as referees are going to be taken in by this kind of amateur theatrics, what else are players going to do?

This however must be a candidate for one of the worst dives ever. If this isn't proof that it's gone too far, we don't know what is.