‘Biggest cheat in football and only 21’ ‘It’s automatic’ ‘He’d rather dive than score’ Silva called out

John Beaton, Fabio Sima

Fabio Silva is building up quite a show-reel from his loan spell in Scotland.

Welcomed to Ibrox as a £35m superstar he will depart next month with the reputation of being one of the worst divers to have played the game. Up there with Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent among the ‘greats’.

Two weeks ago Silva went viral on Twitter as he spun around the turf at Ibrox banging his arms and kicking out after running into Alistair Johnston, it worked with John Beaton booking the Celtic defender.

Better still another dive in the 52nd minute and the Bellshill based referee raced over to the VAR screen to award a penalty and bring his side back into the match.

At Hampden on Sunday Silva showed that his natural inclination is to dive, to fall to the ground to gain a free kick. Even when he is presented with an open goal in a national semi-final.

Following his antics against Celtic Philippe Clement refused to criticise his loan forward, he started the following two matches before being put on the bench against Hearts.

With his side 2-0 up in the 80th minute against a team managed by Steven Naismith yesterday’s dive wasn’t costly but with six matches left to play and only one against Hearts Clement knows that another open goal dive could be very costly.

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