Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has praised the honesty of lower league players.
Scholes is a part-owner in non-league club Salford City.
He wrote in the London Evening Standard: "I find the most appealing part of watching Salford City, or any of the other lower-league games I attend, is the attitude of the players. The tackles are flying in at times, but no one makes a big deal of it. Both sides go in hard and everyone gets on with it.
"It is easy to say that foreign players are the biggest culprits, but there are plenty of British players who do it now, too. Having said that, I think it was an influence that came from overseas. At times at United, we had players who went down too easily, like Cristiano Ronaldo when he first came to the club.
"But Cristiano changed over time and there was no one who got kicked as much as him."
