As a football crazy neutral who likes to watch most matches I have to say the game in general is rapidly going downhill with all the diving and cheating going on.
What gets me is the world cup referees did quite a good job of telling players to get UP and get on with it, but it still wasn't handled correctly... if he's waved "play on" then he's really saying that the player HAS DIVED yet no yellow card was shown on most occasions, if ref's start issuing yellow cards for EVERY dive then it may help to stop it, although then it's catch22... you'll see a player really fouled but because the referee didn't see it properly will book the player with the broken leg
