British players are the biggest divers

Have to say, Hans was ahead of the times. If this thread didn't exist already, I might have made it.

Though special shoutout to the Portuguese, who deserve their silver medal in this category.

PS: Special props and respect also to players who dive in a tournament where in the very beginning a player fucking died for a couple of minutes. Going down for nothing now takes a special kind of character, really. Wow.

Lucifer wrote:Am sorry but the way I see it Sterling was just handed over advantage for his team by some stupid officials and he decided to grab it, nothing wrong in it imo. Why would he do otherwise it's not his job to maintain fairplay on pitch.

Just as relevant today, as it was then.

Arquitecto wrote:British players are not the biggest divers its just a small concentration of high-profile ones that highlight such a blanket statement it applies to basically all nationalities if so.

But, English players diving a lot more this generation despite being from a footballing culture that looks highly upon harden, never say die attitude and frown upon diving more than anyone else, is amusing.

That being said Sterling dived for the penalty and the spineless ref did nothing about it.

I actually read an article 2-3 years ago, where someone analyzed 4 or 5 of the European leagues specifically for diving attempts, and the conclusion was that the Premier League players attempted it more than players in any other league. I remember that it was pointed out that roughly 50% of the players in the league were British.

It was also suggested that leagues in countries like, Spain, Portugal and Italy were perceived as having worse divers, not due to the quantity of attempts, but the overblown simulations by them. That said, I'm not sure how someone confirms whether or not a situation is an attempt at diving. I don't recall that being specified in the article. I'd link to the article here, but I've already spent half an hour trying to locate it, with no luck.