Cesc Fabregas is no diver and football needs to get over its current obsession with simulation, according to Chelsea legend Didier Drogba.
Fabregas was issued with a yellow card by referee Anthony Taylor at Southampton on Sunday having gone down in the box after contact with Saints defender Matt Targett.
Drogba, who is something of a reformed character having admitted to diving in the past, insisted that all of this was a fuss over not very much.
Asked directly if Fabregas is a diver, the Blues' legend was clear: “No he is not.
“From the bench it is difficult to see. I want to believe that it is a penalty, because Cesc is saying it.”
On the subject of the current focus on diving, Drogba was disappointed that so much talk was being spent on what he sees as a minor issue.
“I think it is too much,” he said of the recent headlines made by accusations of simulation. “Sometimes this kind of thing... I think it is a game, and the game is fast, so these kind of things can happen. But it’s not (happening) too much.”