Thursday, December 21
Admirable honesty on diving from Stuart Pearce
The suspended Manuel Lanzini will be greatly missed against Newcastle, but Stuart Peace is probably right when he says it's for the greater good of the game. You have to admire Psycho's honesty. There were some mitigating circumstances in that Lanzini had run the length of the field against Stoke and Pieters had gone to ground, but it did appear that Manuel was falling before there was any mild contact. Simulation needs to be removed from the game and we don't want it at the club of Rob Greenwood and John Lyall. It was a bit embarrassing when Payet did it at Man United a couple of seasons ago and I still don't want to see it at West Ham. Lanzini is good enough to win plenty of penalties without going down so easily.
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Even though we’ll miss him I think it’s a step forward for the game. My only concern is that some clubs
might get an exemption. After the ref against Arsenal was so one sided how can we be sure that the big clubs
won’t get a free pass.
Rob Greenwood would be turning in his grave - lol. Other than that completely agree
How does it work? Every dive that gets a pen gets looked at - or just ones the media highlights?
I think it's where they don't get booked that it gets looked at, though I'm sure the ones the media pick out are more likely to get a suspension. This is what the FA said about Niasse case, PT: "Incidents which suggest a match official has been deceived by an act of simulation are referred to a panel consisting of one ex-match official, one ex-manager and one ex-player. Each panel member will be asked to review all available video footage independently of one another to determine whether they consider it was an offence of 'successful deception of a match official. Only in circumstances where the panel are unanimous would the FA issue a charge."
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