Hey, ref !!

The football authorities have said they are going to clamp down on attempts to con the referee - in particular "diving", that is falling over when there has in fact been no contact with an opponent in the hope of being awarded a free kick, or better, a penalty, and perhaps as a bonus getting the opponent a yellow, or maybe even a red card. Can't argue with that, but what about the player who could have avoided being caught by an opponent but chooses not to? I tend to refer to these incidents as "Oh, look, there's a leg - I'll fall over it". There was an incident recently (no names, no pack-drill) where the referee decided that a goalkeeper's arm had contacted a player's leg and caused him to fall, and penalised the goalkeeper. Thanks to slow-motion replay it became clear that it was more a matter that the player's leg had deliberately come into contact with the goalkeeper's arm - the player could easily have stepped over the arm had they been so minded. So my point is - is this not just as much conning the referee?