The first Premier League played to be charged under the new 'Successful Deception of a Match Official' rule. It was a dive, but I'm surprised he's been charged, I thought there was enough contact for him to have got away with it.
But contact with shoulders wouldn't make both legs flick back at the same time. It's about time this has come about, next thing if I had my way would be that teams could kick off straight away after conceding thus stopping the scoring side wasting time. It would give us a chance to score in the five minutes remaining in a match.
Ref ****s up. Nothing happens. If he’d spotted it and given him a card he’d get a yellow. Refs a **** so Niasse could miss 2 games. What an utter crock of ****.
It's not a foul and it's not a dive. There's contact and he exaggerates it and most refs in that instance would just wave away the appeal and call play on. A dive for me has to be one where a player goes down with no contact, or cons the ref by initating the contact himself like Vardy on Huddlestone and again against West Ham.
Both Niasse & the ref should be banned for life from being involved with football. Or both should be sent to a penal colony down under, for example. I agree with Syd. VAR is the answer - 10 seconds. Two accredited refs manning the technology. If 1 says "live on the park ref" may be wrong - feed to the ref on the pitch and take the majority vote ( 2 off field video refs with the one on the park having the casting vote). Maybe 20 seconds. There's too much at stake getting this sort of decision wrong - like goal line disputes, possible offside calls and dangerous tackles.
He must of really liked playing for us, still wearing our shirt whilst playing for Everton!!!! Good lad..
I think if you exaggerate contact and choose to go down it's a dive. It's not something that a kid on the school playground would ever do. Your instinct is to stay on your feet and try to do something with the ball. Going down out of choice is taught by clubs from academy level and it's just wrong. Football has this reputation of being all diving and feigning injury and this is why. We should be clamping down on all of it, rather than looking to let them off because there was some minimal contact.
Not been a good day for Everton... BBC Sport @BBCSport Everton have been fined 30,000 euros for the confrontation between a child-carrying supporter and a Lyon player in the Europa League.
If there's contact there's contact. It's not a foul but not a dive. Exaggerating contact is not a dive.
That decision is a complete joke. How many players have dived this season and not been punished retrospectively? All you have to do is follow that Belgian twat for 5 minutes. The one who plays for Chelski. Hazard That's him
Hugely dangerous precedent now that this panel can supposedly judge how much contact there is and with what force. A hand in the back that could just be bracing or shoving will now be judged.
It's a shirt colour lottery. Bang on a red shirt, and the punishment is liable to be less severe. Look at this blatant slide with the studs up, and no action taken... please log in to view this image
