I remember that in the build-up to that World Cup, FIFA made some vacuous statement about cracking down on diving and they would be prepared to dish out retrospective punishments. This happened fairly early on and gave FIFA the perfect opportunity to make an example of him, and show that they...
Quantity of "faking" yes, but the "quality" of faking is still this incident. Not sure this can ever be topped, and for such a GREAT player, this is always my abiding memory of him.