Your players lack respect

i agree, this is a truism. and if you want to find fault with the state of football in italy there are a lot worse problems than diving, but let's not be overquick in throwing stones, because we all live in glass houses.

the WORST diver i ever saw was roberto soldado who was on loan to osasuna from real last season. in the eurovase return leg against bordeaux he went down several times, but two stick in my mind particularly: once went down when ramé hadn't even come within a meter of him, more like TWO! and another time he went down with no contact, none, and stayed down for what seemed like a minute... even his teammates must have been disgusted, they didn't even put the ball out of play! finally i think the ref called him for offsides!

and now, gentle readers, we will draw down the curtain on this, the most poetic, useful and uplifting of threads. alles was gut, schön und wahr ist... come back anytime rizzo.