Kevin Friend - Middlesbrough v Man City

[QuaverRef]

I find it disappointing that we (the English FA) choose not to punish obvious dives retrospectively when other nations do.

In instances like this, and the Rashford dive on the same day, where it's clear as day the attacker has dived/clearly initiated contact and fooled the referee into giving (what were game changing) penalties, the FA should be acting.

You wouldn't stop diving altogether, as Scotland still have to punish divers on a fairly regular basis, but players would hopefully think twice before throwing themselves to the ground after their first 2 game ban.

There's a lot of things within football which will never stop regardless of retrospective action or not, dissent and diving included but to just turn a blind eye like the FA have been doing gives you no chance of stopping it whatsoever. We are one of the biggest footballing nations in the world but seem to think that things like this and the controversy which goes along with it is just part of the game.