Problems I Have With Soccer

I have been watching the World Cup Soccer Tournament. Aside from the problem I have with the noise of the vuvuzela, which are so annoying that they should be appearing on the streets here any day, I have a number of problems with the game as played.

1)Diving- This is a very popular "play" during soccer matches. When a player has the ball and is moving near an opponent, if he loses the ball, or sometimes even when he doesn't, he falls down, claiming to have been fouled. The referee is usually far away from the act and has to make his decision based on sketchy information. I watched one guy play act an injury in an effort to use up the clock in overtime. It worked. He pretended not to be able to move, waited for a stretcher to come carry him off the field, allowed himself to be lifted onto the gurney, and then hopped off the stretcher as soon as he was off the field. This used up almost 5 minutes.
2) The referees suck. There appears to be only one and it seems as if either they are not paying attention, the fix is in, or they just are doing a lousy job. In the games I watched several non goals were allowed and some actual goals were disallowed. How about some more officials?
3) Since using your hands is illegal, why not give the appropriate penalty to a player when he does so. Ghana lost because an opposing player (not the goalie) used his hands to stop a ball from crossing the plane of the goal. This absolutely would have been a goal. Instead, the team from Ghana was given a free kick. Why? Why have to try to kick a goal, when if not for a flagrant foul, it would have been a goal. Ghana missed the free kick, the game went to overtime and Ghana wound up losing. That was a bad result. Ghana should have won.