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1 CRISTIANO RONALDO Show pony, play-actor, tantrum thrower, but also the best player on the planet and desperate to do it again.

Sir Alex Ferguson had claimed there was a referees' vendetta against Ronaldo, chief among the charges being he is a diver and play-actor.

SOUTHAMPTON'S Tahar El Khalej was last night labelled a "pathetic play-actor" as Aston Villa fought to overturn Dion Dublin's sending-off.

While the prospect of moving to La Liga with either Barcelona or Real Madrid is tempting, it is life after football which the accomplished play-actor is more excited about.

Beckham received the celebrated red for kicking play-actor Diego Simeone but he and Hoddle thought he deserved only yellow.

The motto is if you're going to get real, get a real play-actor. Otherwise, cut the 15 minutes of fame to five.

SOUTHAMPTON'S Tahar El Khalej was last night labelled a pathetic play-actor as Aston Villa fought to remove Dion Dublin's ridiculous sending-off.

It's radical, but the only step left because the Premier League is becoming a playground for play-actors.

From the Toronto Play-Actors of the 1950s, to the Vancouver Street Theatre of the 1960s, to the Ottawa (ironically named) Great Canadian Theatre Company in the 1970s, Filewod shows how 1930s agitprop evolved for decades after into new forms of radical street theatre, including puppetry and the carnivalesque, that continue today.

They're not like that other bunch of 'sportsmen', the divers the stampers, the posers and play-actors and the racists - not to mention the managers with their limp-wristed handshakes after the game.

If the club gain any advantage, a goal, man sent off or whatever, then deduct any points they won from the match and, while we are at it, let's extend the campaign to the play-actors who turn the lightest of touches into a death scene from Hamlet.

Saying that, the authorities could stamp it out immediately, if they issued an edict to the referees to dismiss play-actors on sight.