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Are there any other fellow reds out there getting a bit annoyed at Suarez diving and falling about at every opportunity.

He is a top player but I noticed in todays match he fell like a sack of spuds every chance he had, which is making it increasingly difficult for the officials to know when he has been fouled.

I don't want him to change completely just to cut out some of the play acting.

What does everybody else think.

Definately, once you get a name for it the crowd get on your back everytime you fall and the ref seem to give the benefit of doubt to the opposition, even when he has been fairly tackled he stays down and hits the floor and complains instead of getting up and getting on with it.

Hopefully he will cut down with the theatrics otherwise it will make it extremely difficult to get the decisions that deserves.

Maybe he should take a diving certificate?! Learn how to dive that is!

Yes Luis time to give it up, it gets you nowhere, all refs have sussed his game.

i'd be more annoyed if he spent a year on crutches cos sooner or later he is gonna get a real horrible tackle and i'll be glad if he dives out of it. My problem with him is he is rubbish diver

Also a bit rubbish at scoring goals lately!

I think it's unfair to say that he's diving. To me, that's when a player goes down when there's been no contact. I've not seen that from Suarez.

perhaps he should try and sty on his feet more when challenged, but I think what works against him is his constant appealing for fouls with his arms raised. That just cheeses people off, including refs, and perhaps creates the additional suspicion that he went down looking for the decision.

We have to take into account that by going down under contact he may have saved himself from serious injury. So my suggestion is just cut out the appealing.

It doesn't really bother me, he doesn't dive without contact, all his dives are genuine tackles or at least he makes them like tackles instead of diving out of the blue like the other idiots out there. Also you can't really change his style of play, this is how he plays and I think the team is use to him now.

Seems the only the way the lad can protect himself. The ref's don't seem to be doing the job. That said, it seems to be the way in the modern game, if you don't do it, somebody else would. It has come to - who can fool the referee better. I don't like it but I can understand it.

Suarez doesn't go down as easily as he did last season - he's improved. But he needs to stop complaining about every bit of contact, because a lot of it is either legitimate or very hard to decide is worthy of a foul. I'm satisfied that he's not just falling over because he can anymore, but he does need to get back onto his feet a bit faster and let the ref do his job. It's true that they're not giving him enough benefit of the doubt, but that doesn't give him the right to complain about everything, and if they can see his attitude has improved he's more likely to get some of those decisions.