In light of Luis Suarez' recent admission of diving in a game against Stoke City earlier this season, Tony Pulis has called for the controversial striker to be banned retrospectively for diving.
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Previous critics against retrospective banning have claimed it will set a precedent that the Football Association will not be able to manage effectively.
But after the most recent incident surrounding the controversial subject, Pulis had this to share: "The FA should look at it on a Monday after the games have been played at the weekend, and people who have been caught simulating should be punished.
"I think if you do that - if you give them three, four or five games (bans) or whatever, then it will take it out of the game," he added.
The issue has been met with contention in the past. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, after Eduardo had been banned in 2009 for diving in a Champions' League game by a UEFA panel, reacted furiously to the decision.
"The existing rules of football have been changed just for one case so we will from now on challenge every single decision that is made in Europe by the referees," the Arsenal coach said.
Other pundits too, such as former Manchester United defender Gary Neville, have echoed similar sentiments with regards to the widespread growth of diving in the game.
"Every dressing room in the country will have a group of players who are told that when there's contact in the box or they get touched, you've got to go down," he said.
"If you're going to ban players retrospectively for three matches every time they go to ground easily or dive, you're going to have anarchy in football."
Pulis, however, feels that retrospective banning may finally be the answer.
"With simulation, I think if a player is found blatantly diving to gain an advantage, whether it is a penalty or conning a referee into giving a decision, they should be dealt with very severely.
"What you would find is that it would soon stop, and that is what we all want, because it is, on a lot of occasions, cheating."
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