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And a diving shitbag like Salah. Easy to play football if the opposition can't go near you as the slightest brush will result in a penalty or free kick.

Probably 95% of them.

A week after the FA Cup final too which was also pretty unusual.

I think it sounds about right for a final round game between the top two, winner takes all match. It would have been the only match on TV then of course.

Better cheat than a footballer and he was a great footballer. May affect the viewing figures in the Middle East but the amount of diving in games will go down once he's gone so it's swings and roundabouts.

How many of those goals were penalties from an obvious dive? The man's a massive cheat who will never be remembered as a truly great player as when he had the opportunity to play football he invariably chose to throw himself.to the floor. Same with Suarez, Mane, Klinsmann, Van Persie, etc. Could...

Massive cheat of a player, that's all he'll be remembered for. Premier League will be better off when he's fucked off the diving shithouse.

The biggest problem is that now if a player doesn't throw themselves down theatrically the referee won't make a decision, it's been getting worse for years but it's reached a point since VAR came in that playing honestly is putting yourself at more and more of a disadvantage, particularly now...

Fair play, this is actually a well thought out and reasoned point of view. If you accept that the GPC was able to intimidate and get in refs heads which made them less likely to give decisions against his team, do you feel it more or less likely that constant negative coverage of City in the...

To be fair, Simon isn't trying it now, he's just being a condescending prick without bringing any cogent arguments or well explained points of view to the discussion. Apparently we can't criticise referees as we can't change anything about their performance but we can criticise the players or...

Yet here you are...

Be a bit daft discussing the players in the referees thread, almost 'off-topic' if you will.

Yeah, why should we have to play to the same rules as everybody else, we should just start on -1 goals handicap every game, the players just need to stop being soft and get on with it, we just have to be better than everyone else and overcome the -1 goal deficit. Do you see how ridiculous that...

I think the lines a bit further forward than it should be and it's also the wrong frame used. It's really hard to tell though as I think these diagrams are meant to be used just as visualisation tools and not as an exact simulation, it certainly looks like the simulation image is based on the...

In multiple games over a number of years we've scored more legal goals than Liverpool and still only been awarded a draw or a loss. That doesnt help our record there any.

This is for determining handball but they're supposed to use the same guidelines for determining offside. The offside rules state that offside should be measured from the parts of the body that are legally allowed to be used to score from, so in practice the offside line should be drawn from the...

I've had a good search and I can only find various newspaper reports about their findings on a few different incidents over the past few years. You'd think it would make nore sense for them to have their own section on the Premier League website detailing what decisions they've looked at that...

Has this Premier League Incident Panel ever made a statement on a decision before? I've never heard of them until now.

Where's your vantage point? What country are you based in? Where are you interacting with neutral fans?

This is what they should have done with all the dippers taking photos of themselves with fake press credentials at the Champions League Final. 3 years ban feels harsh but there has to be punishment for these things otherwise it escalates into the kind of behaviour we see from Liverpool amd...