Despite only coming to prominence with Manchester United last season, Adnan Januzaj is the club's biggest diver of the last six years, according to statistics. Since 2008, when simulation first became a booking offence, Gareth Bale has collected seven yellow cards in the Premier League for diving, whilst Januzaj and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres are next with three apiece. So, despite having only played 27 games in the Premier League, only one player in the last half-a-decade has dived more times than the teenager, who has astonishingly earned himself a yellow card for throwing himself to ground too easily more times than the likes of Luis Suarez, Ashley Young, Didier Drogba, Cristiano Ronaldo and Steven Gerrard. It's an unflattering statistic and the 19-year-old is in real danger of earning a reputation as one of the Premier League's biggest-ever crybabies if he continues trying to win penalties and getting fellow professionals sent off with his consistent complaining and attempts to con the referee. Januzaj may have featured higher up on this list but he is still only young and there are far worse repeat offenders when it comes to whinging.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
