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Published 23:39 9 Jul 2016 BST
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But if even one player was caught diving and was given the appropriate punishment for once - a straight red card and subsequent suspension - he'd never do it again. It wouldn't even come in to his thinking.
If he wasn't caught, then bring in retrospective analysis and start clearly defining who is falling and who is throwing themselves over. Bring in a physicist, bring in an acting expert, who cares? Just start taking deliberate action to weed this out now.
The rest of the country would sit up and take notice. Would they really try such a blatant and largely unnecessary act if the risk was so clear-cut and great? Why would you want to throw yourself over and get sent off and suspended when you could've just went and won the ball in the first place?
That's the logical viewpoint but the longer we go without action, the more blurred that logic becomes. The longer we go on allowing cheating to prosper, the more heads and minds begin to turn and wander in the other direction.
The longer this culture new to the sport festers, the more likely it is to stay.
And unless the GAA grows a set and lumps diving straight into the cheating category now, we'll sooner or later fall down the road of soccer where those grand pieces of gamesmanship won't be rare, but rife.
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