By Chris Wright
Much as the FIFA Ballon d’Or awards sustained footballing excellence, a football fan over on Reddit has devised a similar award to honour (in the loosest sense possible) the biggest, most flagrantly egregious display of play-acting each calendar year.
Positioned as football’s answer to The Razzies, the award would be an attempt to shame the game’s biggest cheats by drawing widespread ironic attention to their low-down antics.
Devised by a Redditor known simply as Shahyar, here’s the skinny…
Now this is something Pies could really get behind, though we fear we may have already seen 2014’s winner: Adryan, take a bow…
As for Neymar, they’d just have to give him a Lifetime Fellowship straight out of the traps.
Just tell us, are we alone in thinking this is a genuinely good idea?
If funding’s an issue, the the whole thing could be sponsored by this guy…
(Via shahyar/Reddit)/Many thanks to Pies fan Mark Bewley for the tip-off)