stonerblue said:
super_city_si said:
trouble is by this rule, Tevez would have been off last saturday. If you are giving straight reds, the video review is required.
It's a good point Si but they have to start somewhere. If Tevez had been sent off it would have been unfair but, it would make other players think twice about going down so easily.
Has to be retrospective because:
1. I don't trust the current crop of referees to know the difference between a dive and a player who's been tripped (as the past couple of weeks have proved).
2. I don't trust the current crop of referees not to use this as an opportunity to send players off.
I'd take this out of their incapable hands completely, and have a panel of former players looking through the weekends suspected dives, and handing down 3 game bans to all those found guilty. Would stamp it out in two weeks.