Suarez admits diving

Luis Suarez could face sanctions from Liverpool after admitting he dived during a match at Stoke earlier in the season.

Suarez admitted to “falling” during October’s goalless draw at Anfield.

Reds boss Brendan Rogers revealed the club would take action, and said “I think it is wrong. It is unacceptable. I have spoken to Luis and it will be dealt with internally.”

He went on: “[Diving] is not something we advocate. Our ethics are correct.”

Suarez made the admission to Fox Sports in Argentina, saying: “Football is like that. Sometimes you do things on the field that later you think ‘why the hell did I do that?’

“I was accused of falling inside the box in a match, and it's true I did it that time, because we were drawing against Stoke at home and we needed anything to win it.”

This is certainly a strange one, in the first few months of the season there were incidents were Suarez went down too easily, as we now know he took a dive, but then after that he seemed to make an effort to stay on his feet, and yet he now comes out and admits that he dived in a match three months ago.

It’s also strange because he’s admitted to diving, so do you say well at least he admitted to it or does it make him a fool for bringing up an incident everyone’s forgotten about.

Liverpool say he will be dealt with internally, but I think if football is serious about addressing the issue of diving then hopefully the FA will step in and ban him and start to send the message that diving won’t be tolerated.

Of course all the attention shouldn't be directed at Suarez as there are numerous other examples of simulation from a number of players this season and they too should be punished, but when you give an interview and admit to it you’re bound to find yourself in the spotlight.

It’s still fascinating to me why players dive because there is an abundance of cameras at every game that ensure nothing is missed, so there’s no hope of them getting away with it and say they do get away with it on the day and get a penalty, a free kick, or an opposition player sent off, all it will do is get them a reputation as a diver.

I mean I’m not question the intelligence of footballers.............