Open to so much abuse. Media witch hunts with Sky, BT and MotD setting the agenda is almost a certainty.
Plus, although these bans are a detriment to the team that suffers them, the team that was cheated doesn't necessarily gain anything and in fact might be at a disadvantage because the banned player might miss a game against the cheated team's rivals. Full of holes and I don't trust it will work to anything but our disadvantage.
As of next season players can be banned for diving with a panel consisting of an ex official, an ex manager and an ex player deciding fate.
Luckily for the Rags it will be Webb, Baconface and Phil Neville.
They could also get injured out for the season(or end their career) for not avoiding a challenge when they really should for fear of it looking like a dive... it really could lead to situations like that if it's done carelessly.But it's full of holes now. A player dives and more often than not gets the decision in his favour - at worst, no decision or a yellow hence why players still do it. They would think twice much more knowing they could get a ban
Video reffing worked perfectly in the recent France v Spain game,it didn't slow things down and sorted out 2 goals that were mistaken given or disallowed,that is the way to go,watching on tv we can see if someone has dived within seconds,if the panel aren't sure then go with whatever the ref decides in that moment,you'll soon complain if you get robbed of a game,punishing after the fact will not change the outcome of the game,it could be you lose when you shouldn't haveI get the mistrust. But surely it's a step in the right direction - if you get a 3 match ban for diving why would you as a player take that risk ? It's a very good punishment. A yellow or a 10 min sin bin as Sam suggested isn't. Plus the fact some decisions take time to come to a conclusion, if a video ref only has one or two angles this will delay the game - we've seen how pundits have argued whether it was a dive or not, yes like anything in sport there will be mistakes and uproar - but a retrospective ban is something I've called for a long time.
Open to so much abuse. Media witch hunts with Sky, BT and MotD setting the agenda is almost a certainty.
Plus, although these bans are a detriment to the team that suffers them, the team that was cheated doesn't necessarily gain anything and in fact might be at a disadvantage because the banned player might miss a game against the cheated team's rivals. Full of holes and I don't trust it will work to anything but our disadvantage.
Video reffing worked perfectly in the recent France v Spain game,it didn't slow things down and sorted out 2 goals that were mistaken given or disallowed,that is the way to go,watching on tv we can see if someone has dived within seconds,if the panel aren't sure then go with whatever the ref decides in that moment,you'll soon complain if you get robbed of a game,punishing after the fact will not change the outcome of the game,it could be you lose when you shouldn't have
I will bet rags and dippers never get done because the ref will book them all so they can't get done after,the bias and stitch ups will continue,it's a nonsense way to sort it out and gives the officials even more power to abuse
They could also get injured out for the season(or end their career) for not avoiding a challenge when they really should for fear of it looking like a dive... it really could lead to situations like that if it's done carelessly.
What's the lesser of two evils there: Someone getting away with going down easy or the premier league loosing one of it's stars that generate the money they can't wait to get their greedy little paws on? I'm already sick of some of the challenges that go unpunished against players like Silva, Sterling and Aguero throughout a season, they get free reign as it is some games.
In fact I'm certain this wouldn't be fair without video referees in the game and if we have those it becomes unnecessary in the first place, if it's that hard to call even with video referees we have to give them the benefit of the doubt(if it's not a foul but they've gone down, it's not always a dive).