A number of high-profile players have been accused of diving in recent weeks as we saw with Andy Carroll at St James' Park.
Manchester United's Ashley Young has twice been the subject of attention.
Ryan Taylor has taken to Twitter to hit out at ... the ‘antics’ of Ashley Young, labelling him a ‘disgrace’ and a ‘cheat’.
Young flew through the air with the greatest of ease to earn a penalty in their game against Aston Villa, his former club, but was hardly touched by a challenge from Ciaran Clark.
This comes just a week after Young dived to win a spot-kick against QPR at Old Trafford in a 2-0 victory, an event which also saw Shaun Derry receive a red card.
Ryan Taylor: “Ashley Young is an absolute DISGRACE. He's the biggest cheat in the league. His antics are a joke....” [sic]
Former Toon midfielder Jermaine Jenas added: “Never a pen the refs having a laugh!” [sic]
Sir Alex Ferguson admitted Young has emerged from the past seven days with a reputation as someone who goes down too easily, but the Manchester United boss claims not to have seen any evidence he is a diver.
Ferguson: "I think in that situation, in the last week or two, yeah.
"I have never seen that in him. It is not an habitual thing with him. He was brought down. He just made the most of it.
"But he definitely brought him down. There was contact. He has bought the fact that Ashley jinked inside him.
"He has gone down quite easily but it was a penalty. He was definitely brought down."
Now players union boss Gordon Taylor has warned his members that blatant diving and playacting cannot be tolerated in the game.
Gordon Taylor: "When it is blatant, when players are feigning injury or holding parts of the body that weren't even touched just to try to exaggerate a contact or get an opponent booked or sent off, that is something that needs to be condemned and that can't be tolerated.
"From that point of view, it is up to all authorities, including the referees and with the aid of technology, to make sure there is education and appropriate sanctions when it is blatant - when someone has tried to gain an advantage they shouldn't have done - so that the message will get through.
"It is very difficult when players are playing with so much at stake and managers jobs are on the line - sometimes their futures depend on the next game - for them not to think to seize an advantage if they can get one.
"But I think we have got to do all we can to try to make sure the game is played in the best possible way.
"That sounds a little bit innocent and naive but unless you do that you are not doing your job.
"Sometimes a forward will try to keep his balance and try to keep going when contact has been made but not enough to knock him down.
"But then he will be asked why he didn't go down, because that would have been a penalty.
"I played with Francis Lee at Bolton and he went on to City.
"As a player if contact was made and you felt you had lost control, or you were not in as good a position as you were, then you were not exactly told but, as a professional, would be expected to try to make the most of the opportunity.
"That is the more cynical side of the game, bearing in mind what is at stake. You are damned if you do, damned if you don't.
"That does not make it easy for the referee, and the commercial cynicism and win-at-all-costs (mentality) has got to be really discouraged."