Unbelievable! An unrepentant diver!

Di Maria in sizzling hot form takes a dive early on in a league match and gets booked - rightly so. Nothing out of the ordinary, I've seen him take the occasional dive in my current save.

The idiot however decides to take a dive again just before half-time and is sent off!!! I don't think I've ever seen a player in real-life dumb enough to take a dive on a yellow and usually refs give the benefit of the doubt to the player if he's on a yellow. Furthermore, I don't recall Di Maria being a particularly dirty player in real-life (though I haven't seen much of him except for the last world cup). Anyways, I thought it was a tad unrealistic for that to happen, but wrote it off as a one-off.

I fine him a weeks wages and he feels treated unfairly. No big hoo-haa, just a message in my inbox saying so.

My next game is a CL match, so Di Maria is available and I start him... The dim-wit goes and does the exact same thing! Early booking for diving, sent-off just before half-time for a second dive!!!

Bug, getting back at me, or diving enthusiast?

4 bookings in 2 games for diving is stretching anyone's imagination. Report this in the Bugs forum please and keep saves or pkms of the 2 games in case the testers need them.

In all honesty ive never seen a booking for diving, let alone a sending off. Maybe he's diving to make up for the lack of divers in my game?

Sounds to me as though he has considerbly low proffessionalism and sportsmanship......... for that to happen at that consistency, they must be low.

Labino Haliti in Australia's A-League once got sent off for a dive and a deliberate handball.

I reported this issue last year. SI didn't fix it. There's no way to punish a player who dives, and a player being on a yellow has no real bearing on if they keep diving.

I saw Berbatov get sent off for two dives in the Charity Shield this year, but other than that I'm stretching to try and think of anything similar. Twice in two games must mean he has incredibly low sportsmanship stats.

Any player sent off for two dives in real life would get such a public battering that they would probably never even go down when fouled again.

I've uploaded the pkms in my bugs forum thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/303351-Diving-Bug-12.2.2?p=7707267

berbatov? dive?

if that happens i would expect the prolific real life divers to be sent off every time they play

berbatov? dive?

if that happens i would expect the prolific real life divers to be sent off every time they play

Don't shoot the messenger mate.

Furthermore, I don't recall Di Maria being a particularly dirty player in real-life (though I haven't seen much of him except for the last world cup).

While you're right to find this unrealistic (FM refs are infinitely more willing to book a player for diving than real-life refs, who always bottle it) you're wrong about Di Maria.

The rather tedious Barca vs Real arguments that break out on many of the footbal sites I visit generally turn into an argument about whether Di Maria or Busquets is a more loathsome cheat - to the extent that former favourite target C.Ronaldo doesn't even get brought up as a diver.

Di Maria dives constantly. Unfortunately, no ref would dare send him off for it.

I quite like the alternate world of FM, where such things are punished. I'm managing Neymar at Santos, and every time he gets booked for some stupid dive to try and get a player from a 3rd Division team sent off in the State Championship, I'm glad he gets booked.

It's just too bad you can't shout at players for diving.

Di Maria dives constantly. Unfortunately, no ref would dare send him off for it.

If he ever dares to come to the EPL i would put a tenner he would not dive again...the fans would rip him apart, cheating sc*m

I wish they would start calling it more often and showing cards- something we could definitely use less of

Helder Barbosa got sent off for Braga against Besiktas for diving. Second yellow card offence:D Forgot what his first yellow was for now though.

Sanchez got a second yellow for diving against me, very fun stuff.

Wish I'd see it more, you don't really see it often in real life though as it is so I suspect there's not much need for change.

Didn't Georgi Hagi get sent off for a dive against England at the Euros?

And didn't Totti get sent off for a dive against Korea at the World Cup?