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zorro said:
Disagree - without severe punishment diving will continue. I accept you need a strict procedure (with benefit of doubt going to the player) if career ending penalties can apply but it is logistically possible to put a procedure and expert panel in place to adjudicate on diving imo. If not, it is cheater's paradise and I do not want to watch that.
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“Cheaters paradise” how about we introduce a 45 minute lunch at half time and have both sets of players dine together. Grow up.
 
BoN41 said:
“Cheaters paradise” how about we introduce a 45 minute lunch at half time and have both sets of players dine together. Grow up.
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You seem not to be able to get your head round this. The panel to adjudicate on diving would sit after games - bit like existing process for reviewing cards. Games themselves would flow as now and diving can and probably will still happen but if penalties are more severe I'd argue diving will happen less and less as attitudes are changed. Seems to me it is logistically very simple to organise. If there is a will, there is a way. Not sure there is a will within football though.
 
Strongbow said:
All the officials fault .... 'never' the fault of the players eh ..................
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Absolutely this. I said after the West Brom game that I felt for the referee a bit, it’s him who got lambasted totally in the press when the player created the situation by his cheating and he has escaped unscathed. The fact he hasn’t been punished is simply astounding,
 
BenPearsonIsGod said:
If refs were better then players wouldn't need to dive. If you don't go to ground then you don't get a foul so players over the years have adapted to anticipate contact or exaggerate it to bring it to the incompetent referee's attention.
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Should the rules about ex players being refs be relaxed as most of them were cheating and diving whilst today's players were still at school.
 


On MotD's 2-Good 2-Bad last night, they showed this "Dive" from the Copa Libertadores final. I thought the player looked and saw it was the ref who had put his hand in his back and dived it for a joke... but he's getting a stick on YouTube, suggesting he thought it was an opponent who pushed him... and having viewed one or two videos (this one's not the best, but it's short!), I am not sure - now erring to it being an attempt to get a player sent off... but??? Anyone else see it?

It's funny anyway...
 
Regardless said:


On MotD's 2-Good 2-Bad last night, they showed this "Dive" from the Copa Libertadores final. I thought the player looked and saw it was the ref who had put his hand in his back and dived it for a joke... but he's getting a stick on YouTube, suggesting he thought it was an opponent who pushed him... and having viewed one or two videos (this one's not the best, but it's short!), I am not sure - now erring to it being an attempt to get a player sent off... but??? Anyone else see it?

It's funny anyway...
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I watched the game live. The fella was a nightmare for it, definitely wasn't a joke.
 
Or we could just accept it from all teams! deeming A fall to be a dive is quite often subjective and very difficult to call. VAR couldn’t call it, refs are often conned. Maybe we just accept it in real time,but have points deductions retrospectively!
 
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