Diving another fine mess for Olly’s Blackpool

WHILE El-Hadji Diouf was held up as some sort of role model, Ian Holloway was admitting his team are paying the price for being bad divers.

No, football has not finally gone completely, irretrievably, crazy – there was some sense to it all during a wonderful game at Bloomfield Road. Holloway was really lamenting the softness of the Premier League, with Sam Allardyce once again pleased to see Diouf, who had irritated the Blackpool manager, making the most of the rules.

Last week he was charging Mark Schwarzer in Blackburn’s 1-1 draw with Fulham – that job was left to team-mate Nikola Kalinic after last weekend’s fall-out – but this time, it was dropping to the floor after going shoulder to shoulder with the smallest man on the field, David Vaughan.