Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has called for
players who dive to be shown straight red cards.
Manchester United’s Ashley Young was booked for
tumbling over after a challenge by Palace's Kagisho Dikgacoi in United’s 2-0
win on Saturday.
Dikgacoi was dismissed when the pair clashed again
later in the first half.
While everybody would like to see diving eradicated from
the game I think a red card for everyone who dives isn’t the way to go, because
that introduces a whole new problem how can you definitively tell in all cases
whether someone dived.
You have those situations where a player goes down
after minimal contact, but there was contact nonetheless, when they could have easily stayed
on their feet, so technically isn’t that a dive as well?
I also think a straight red for a dive is a bit too
harsh, I think a different way of approaching it is to keep it at a yellow card
for a dive, but if the same player is booked for a clear dive on two separate occasions
in two separate matches then they should receive a one match ban.
However, if a player is booked twice for two clear dives in a match then they should obviously be sent off, but instead of facing the standard one match ban, that should be increased to two matches, this harsher punishment would hopefully make players less inclined to go down after being breathed on, and more inclined to stay on their feet.
The FA could also do more by properly
retrospectively punishing players, not just for dives, take Schneiderlin’s tackle
yesterday the ref somehow didn’t see it so therefore he will get away with it
rather than facing the straight red and three game ban his two-footed,
dangerous tackle deserved.
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