Quote Originally Posted by Romanis View Post
I would agree with you in principle, but as a former referee myself, this is extremely hard to police. And then you have different degrees, tolerance levels. How can a referee be certain 100% of the time it's dive, how does he judge intent in a matter of seconds.
I think a yellow card is sufficient penalty, although perhaps you could designate it as 1 of the more severe forms of yellow just short red.
2 similar yellows and a 3 match ban with a hefty fine?
DDD what do you know about this new interpretation about red cards for goalies? I've forgotten how it's to implemented. I know if the defender still brings him down and this denies him a scoring chance, it's red and penalty but this has been tweaked to offer some respite to goalies. Any facts? A bot of googling perhaps, your favourite fetish...
Cameron Jerome wasn’t a dive and he got booked for a dive when he was in clear view of it, so most all referees nowadays are old pensioners who are past their sell by date and should go in a retirement home and let some younger referees take charge who have a better whit about them.