If you have eyes, a TV or a social media account of any sort, then you likely won’t have escaped the antics of Adryan Tavares.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then I suggest you fire up the search engine of your choice and type in the word ‘Adryan’ – don’t worry, autofill will add the word dive for you.

On Saturday, Derby’s Johnny Russell did fly into a challenge on Leeds United’s Brazilian midfielder, his momentum carried him through, on a greasy pitch, with a flailing toe, which clipped the Brazilian under-20 international as he cut back inside.

Free-kick. Up you get. Crack on. But wait… what’s this? The on-loan Flamengo player is on the ground, doing an impression of an eel, flung onto dry land and being tasered.

He actually used both hands, mid-roll, to push himself two feet back into the air to give himself more room to throw his head back in mock anguish and curve his spine like a crisp packet in the oven.

Russell was booked. The game died a little more inside.

Leicester City’s already unlikeable Jamie Vardy is another player who went down, shall we say, easily on Tuesday night. Sadly, it’s not just Brazilians anymore.

Now, be warned, I feel strongly about this. I have no time for the people (almost always Arsenal fans in my experience), who claim that hard tackling with the potential to cause injury is worse than diving. No. It isn’t. I’m not even sorry for saying that.

Unless you are Dimitar Berbatov, you go onto the field each week to play a game of football knowing full well there’s a chance that you might be involved in a tackle. 990 times out of 1,000 you’ll be fine but occasionally you’ll be on the end of a dangerous one, from a poorly-timed or an out of control opponent and you are at risk of injury. It’s just part of a game.

What you do not expect when you enter the field though, is for an opponent to attempt to cheat you out of your livelihood.

A booking could lead to a player being suspended and missing a Cup Final. A dodgy penalty could be the difference between a manager keeping his job or losing it, between a team entering the Promised Land or entering administration.

I would establish an independent panel, couple of recent ex pros, a manager/coach or two, a current and former ref and a couple of men on the street – fans, Sunday players, whatever – and a sports science boffin… let’s call it nine people, different every week if you like, like jury service.

Monday morning they sit down in front of a video of all the contentious incidents from the weekend and watch them back, from as many angles as possible, then they make their judgement. One of three decisions. Dived on purpose. Made the most of it. No case to answer.

The integrity of the sport, its believability, is its most important thing. And any player caught diving, feigning, CHEATING, should immediately be named, shamed and warned. The second time they get a five-match ban. Third time it’s 15 matches. That should stop it in time for Christmas.