Who's ready for the World Cup?

[TheRiddick]

Originally Posted by yourchoice

A serious question, is this part of the rules of soccer, either "by the book" or just generally accepted?

For certain countries it is the norm. Spain and Italy are main culprits, their youth academies spend as much time on "acting" as they spend on technique. Watch Germany, England and Dutch play, if you see a dive it is a rare occurrence and only lately after their leagues have been infected by foreign players and coaches. Arsenal won a load of games this way in years past (Pires, anyone?), although they have cleaned up after their manager was taken to the task by other teams/managers. Drogba, Ronaldo (I am a Manchester fan) and a few others imported this BS lately to PL. Too bad.

But as usual, Blatter won't do crap about this...