Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has called for harsher penalties for divers.

Debate rages about what can be done to curb one of the scourges of the game. But Wenger thinks there should be tough retrospective action.

"I'm against diving," he said.

"We should punish after the game. Naming alone doesn't work. You have to suspend the players. For how long? I don't know, it depends. I am not a specialist in this kind of thing. And punish only obvious cases, but not mixed ones.

"But the only way that the players will stop doing it is if they feel they can get punished. Is it Arsenal, or Man United, or Liverpool or Chelsea, it is for everybody the same.

"The problem will be to decide when it was obvious diving or not. That's a big issue and sometimes it's not obvious."