Ryno link said:This is why I hate soccer, but lets look at the bigger picture. This playing for penalty crap has been creeping into the game for years and the officials have allowed it to happen and it's at the stage where we see it everyweekend.
One of my work mates was a professional soccer player and over a few beers one night I got stuck into him about soccer players being actors and what a disgrace to sport it was. He told me they are coached to do it, which got my back up even more as this bloke now coaches kids, thank god my kids don't play soccer I thought. Â I'm not looking forward to seeing him on Wednesday after this incident as he reckons it's rife in the NRL.
I have never had a coach tell me to do it, I have seen fights started because someone took a dive though,
It just depends on the club and the background.
It is rife in some national leagues though.
Either way it has no place in NRL and I remember the Origin a few years ago that BK was called a diver.
This was softer though