The problem with play acting is that the referee had to make a judgment on whether the victim is making a foul or being fouled. I have a lot of sympathy for football refs because of this - people often mention the things a ref gets wrong, and fail to mention when a player has tried to fool a ref.

Owen doesn't realise that retrospective action is now taken against PL players found to be diving. Owen also doesn't appreciate that sin bins won't work in football because football isn't rugby (thank feck). I'm not really sure he watches football for any other reason than to say how marvellously correct rugby union is.