Originally Posted by
sinkov
The problem is that most times the referees do see it, they see the lightest of touches which cannot possibly have caused that player to 'go to ground', but still they give the free-kick. Whilst the referees continue to condone and reward cheating you cannot blame the players. As long as referees give free-kicks for players throwing themselves onto the ground with minimal contact, players will continue to throw themselves onto the ground with minimal contact, they'd be foolish not to.
In fact our referees are so hapless that Wolves got a free-kick last week when a player 'went to ground' with no contact at all.