What should done with all the diving and pretending to be injured in footballs\soccer?

I'm not sure there's any way of stopping that.

He can't give a penalty for obstruction and if the corner hasn't been taken yet he can't award a penalty anyway since the ball's not in play, the only thing he can do is book or send off a player if the offence is serious enough.

If he did not stop the corner from being taken it's likely that the players would be fouling each other simultaneously when the corner was taken, in which case he would be required by the rules to immediately stop play and restart with a drop ball in the area, which would be total fucking chaos and an unfair advantage to the attacking team.  

I figure their choice of whether to dive-and-writhe is often based on where they know the ref is and whether his view is blocked or he's too far to see the details.

Send a mafia thug to actually give them the injury they're pretending to have-- then do the same to their family. The diving would end pretty quickly, I think.

A one-year ban is completely disproportionate to the seriousness of the offense. You can punch an opponent and you won't get banned for one year. No, what is needed is not harsher penalty, it is just enforcement of the already existing rules, as Father Jack said above.

Now that FIFA has allowed video review, there is absolutely no excuse to let things like what Pepe did in the Morocco game to go unpunished.

i agree witrh the red card - for blatant dives (not when the player draws the foul and dives when making contact)


time wasting needs to be sorted out by having a better game clock system. make it impossible to time waste - at preset the refs have created the [roblem that the players take advantage of by not alloeing the correct extra time
we should clock stop (yes transport systems anbd planners and tv hate this , however once players know they cannot get away with it - time wasting will jappen less (it may still happen to break the flow of an opponents play, but a ref cannot hand a punishment down to a player got pretending to be injured or hurt' - even a trained doc would have difficulty in that.