The FA is looking at bringing in retrospective punishments for players who dive or feign an injury, thoughts?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38650163
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- 17-01-2017 20:07
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Sounds like a good call, it's embarrasing to see professional sportsmen using pathetic techniques like this. I find it very hard to take football seriously when grown men stoop to such levels.
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- 17-01-2017 20:11
(Original post by Rock Fan)
The FA is looking at bringing in retrospective punishments for players who dive or feign an injury, thoughts?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38650163
There'll still be clubs and players who'll challenge any decision.
And once a player has been done for it, are referees likely to offer them the benefit of the doubt the next time they go down? -
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- 17-01-2017 20:21
I think it is a waste of time. As far as I'm concerned, they may as well decriminalise diving.
What I can't understand is that if there is is no contact, it is seen as diving but if there is contact but not enough to actually make you fall over, that is fair game. A player can be in the box, already going down and a touch of the oppositions shoe laces is the difference between him being a cheat worthy punishment and him been a smart player.
It is totally entrenched in the culture of football that it is acceptable to try to buy a foul or a card off the ref from theatrical skill so why punish people for diving? -
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(Original post by Sternumator)
I think it is a waste of time. As far as I'm concerned, they may as well decriminalise diving.
What I can't understand is that if there is is no contact, it is seen as diving but if there is contact but not enough to actually make you fall over, that is fair game. A player can be in the box, already going down and a touch of the oppositions shoe laces is the difference between him being a cheat worthy punishment and him been a smart player.
It is totally entrenched in the culture of football that it is acceptable to try to buy a foul or a card off the ref from theatrical skill so why punish people for diving?Last edited by samir12; 17-01-2017 at 20:49. -
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- 17-01-2017 22:19
(Original post by samir12)
Because you have to draw the line somewhere otherwise you are saying it is acceptable for someone to blatantly dive with zero contact and win a penalty or try and get someone sent off. Referees are human and will not be able to catch all dives in real time even if they are obvious (we have the benefit of replays where as referees don't), retrospective action means anything missed out can be caught due to replays.
Players will dive and refs will be fooled by it but so much gamesmanship goes on anyway I don't think it is a big deal.
Penalties and red cards are usually overkill. They are almost never a proportionate punishment for the impact the offence had on the game. That means there is an incentive for teams to play for them and that has been accepted into the culture of the game as a valid tactic.
Think of the situation where the player is 1 on 1 and the keeper comes charging out. The player has two opinions. They can try to score a goal or they can try to get a penalty. Both are seen as acceptable tactics. If the player chooses the second option, he dinks it past the keeper and goes down. The objective of the mini game is to convince the ref it is a pen. Everybody knows that to be the case. Whether there is actually contact or not is irrelevant. The ball is going out for a goal kick anyway.
Deception of the referee is part of the game. Nobody says players are supposed to act in a natural way in a foul situation to present a fair view of the incident to the ref. That is obvious from the fact that any contact gives you the right to go down. Refs are never going to get a fair view, as I say, that battle is lost. We may as well allow everything and if the refs miss some, so be it.Last edited by Sternumator; 17-01-2017 at 22:21. -
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- 17-01-2017 23:58
The crusade against diving is pretty pathetic in my opinion and this plan is yet another pathetic attempt to protect the totally fictional moral heart of the game.
I personally dont think diving needs t be a specific offense, any particularly egregious attempt could be covered by unsportsmanlike conduct.
(Original post by Sternumator)
I think it is a waste of time. As far as I'm concerned, they may as well decriminalise diving.
What I can't understand is that if there is is no contact, it is seen as diving but if there is contact but not enough to actually make you fall over, that is fair game. A player can be in the box, already going down and a touch of the oppositions shoe laces is the difference between him being a cheat worthy punishment and him been a smart player.
It is totally entrenched in the culture of football that it is acceptable to try to buy a foul or a card off the ref from theatrical skill so why punish people for diving?
There was an incident a few weeks back when Pogba was booked for diving, cant recall who it was against, when his opponent had come in and taken a swipe at his legs. Pogba was essentially punished for trying to not have his legs broken. That is ridiculous. Even under the current rules of the game, the first offence is punished, so surely, the foul tackle comes first so it shpould have been a free kick to Pogba, but the opposite decision was given.
Edit: it was this one. Still a ridiculous decision.
Until the FA can enforce the rules they have in a cnsistent and reasoned way, they should really think twice about making moves to sate the baying morality mob that spend all their time pontificating about pointless rubbish, usually on a Sky Sports set.Last edited by mojojojo101; 18-01-2017 at 00:02.
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