Players who dive will face trial by television in Scotland after football's rulemakers gave the green light to retrospective punishments - but the Football Association will not follow suit in England.

The International FA Board (IFAB) meeting in Gleneagles said individual associations would be allowed to pursue the use of video evidence to punish simulation.

FA chief executive Brian Barwick ruled out any change to their current policy, however.

He said: "We have worked very hard with players and managers to raise awareness of this issue and I actually think there's less of it going on.

"The crowds ridicule players who do it, and the players ridicule each other so that has changed it.

"This is a Scottish FA initiative and not the FA's and we do not have any plans at the moment to follow them on this issue."

Scottish FA chief executive Gordon Smith, who had been pushing the idea, said bans of up to two matches could be handed out to divers but they still had to decide on the punishment as referees only award a yellow card if they spot it during the match.

Smith added: "From next season this will allow us to impose up to a two-match ban.

"The referees will have a say in any incidents brought up but they are the ones also being cheated."

Other IFAB decisions included standardising the pitch sizes for senior international matches.

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