It is sometimes said that sport is a wider reflection of society as a whole.
For all the criticism thrown football’s way over issues that plague the game such as financial inequality, institutional racism and cheating, you do not have to look too far to see that these problems are endemic in many aspects of public life as well.
Diving is often regarded as the scourge of the modern game although a cursory glance through history shows there have always been players happy to go to ground easily to win fouls, even if the lack of saturation media coverage we have now meant such gamesmanship wasn’t always as visible.
