Time to get tough on soccer cheats

If you haven’t seen the video of Adrian Trinidad’s dive in the A-League on the weekend, here it is. If you have already seen it then watch it again, because it’s pretty unbelievable that we are allowing this to go on in our national competition.



What a goose!

Now I’m sorry, but this is send off was simply a joke. Trinidad should have been the one given his matching orders for acting the fool. If there’s one thing I think all soccer fans agree on, it’s that we they hate diving. It shouldn’t be a part of the game and the sooner we get rid of it the better.

Understandably, Sydney FC coach John Kosmina was unhappy with the incident.

He has since called for diving, or ‘simulation’ as soccer types seem insistent on calling it, to be more heavily policed and punished in the A-League, and I reckon he’s got it spot on.

Perhaps the biggest problem with diving is that in can be difficult to pick up when watching the game live. That’s why I believe the A-League should be using a match review committee to be looking more closely at these incidents and punishing the offenders. Make an example of someone. It’s the only way.

Now I’m not the only one blowing up about this. Wally the Fly has written a good article about the incident. I reckon he’s spot on. Diving, simulation, whatever you want to call it, its cheating and it has to go.

In my opinion there is no way Fyfe should have copped a suspension for tapping Trinidad on the head. This type of theatrics may be acceptable in Europe, but we are a far more hardened bunch here in Australia. We like our sports hard and rough. League, Union and AFL are three of the most physical sports in the world. In a game of rugby if you got suspended every time you tapped a bloke on the head we wouldn’t have any players left!

Hence if soccer is ever going to truly break into the mainstream, and win the hearts and minds of us Aussies, they need to eliminate this type of rubbish and do it quick smart.


Check a few of these out. This is deadest one of the funniest videos I have ever seen and demonstrates exactly why diving is the biggest blight on ‘the world game’.