Nottingham Forest (H) | Sat 23rd Sept | PL | Post Match Thread

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Why did he get 4?

Second red of the season, so one extra game on his ban.

 

[levets]

Second red of the season, so one extra game on his ban.

Ah right… cheers for that

 

[normskih]

I think that you'll find the issue of GW diving and simulating injury has been swept under the PFA Axminster.

Mind you, the way GW went down it did look like Rodri hit him with the force of Ali’s right hand. I agree with @FantasyIreland that the PFA ought to start looking at all forms of cheating all over the pitch and not just at diving in the area.

 

[Cityfan]

Gvardiol went down clutching his head at one stage. There was no contact anywhere near his head.
Cancelo use to do something similar.
Don't like this form of cheating by any player, ours or the opposition.
Cannot understand why diving and pretending to be injured are still not taken seriously by the officials and administrators.

I think to ask a referee to distinguish between a genuine injury and a feigned injury is pretty difficult.
The only thing I would say is that anyone going down clutching their head has not got a serious enough head injury to immediately stop the game.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Mind you, the way GW went down it did look like Rodri hit him with the force of Ali’s right hand. I agree with @FantasyIreland that the PFA ought to start looking at all forms of cheating all over the pitch and not just at diving in the area.

What’s it got to do with the PFA?

 

[normskih]

What’s it got to do with the PFA?

Those who make the rules I mean

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Those who make the rules I mean

Ah ok. Yeah, the FA could clamp down on it through PGMOL, but they’d obviously find a way to cock it up and ban players that weren’t cheating.

 

[normskih]

Ah ok. Yeah, the FA could clamp down on it through PGMOL, but they’d obviously find a way to cock it up and ban players that weren’t cheating.

They could start with head injuries. Or so called head injuries, those that occur when teams are piling on pressure and a player heads the ball and then goes down injured. Then change the rules so that he has 5 or 10 minutes in the injury bin. If it was a proper head injury like a clash of heads, then we know that deserves a different point of view and the player probably should have a break of a few minutes anyway for proper treatment and assessment.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

They could start with head injuries. Or so called head injuries, those that occur when teams are piling on pressure and a player heads the ball and then goes down injured. Then change the rules so that he has 5 or 10 minutes in the injury bin. If it was a proper head injury like a clash of heads, then we know that deserves a different point of view and the player probably should have a break of a few minutes anyway for proper treatment and assessment.

Yeah, I suggested a 10 min mandatory concussion check for such things, but players would just find another way.

How do you define a proper head injury? That’d be where the ruling would fall down.

 

[eyalluvitt]

New in the City store literary section