As well as better referees, Jeff Winter calls for players to behave better, but offers no answer as to how it can be encouraged but it seems obvious to me. Allow video evidence to be used after the match has been finished to assess a 'dive' just as it can be used for bad fouls. It doesn't help or disrupt the current match but if the panel had the power to ban players for diving they would start to think twice about it.
Part of the problem with all this is that we have complete and utter clueless buffoons like Jeff Winter getting on refereeing panels. He was one of the most posturing, ridiculous and useless referees I've ever seen in over 30 years of watching football.
my heart says we should show replays on the big screen and add a laugh track to humiliate the divers into a bit of decency. Seriously though, it's got to be video refereeing I think. As far as Im concerned its only a matter of time before this is brought in. It'll take something like a Drogba special in the Champions League final to win a dodgy penalty for the winner, but its got to happen, refs, try as they might/useless as they are, just can't cope with the game at its current pace. Assess an incident after the game and award punishments for offenders, cards probably, but fines could be a good one aswell, being as we are all so aware how much money a poor decision can cost a club these days...
How is showing replays going to help anything? The crowd don't know the rules. And the replays are hardly ever conclusive. In a stadium they are anything but. The best way to stop players diving under challenge - when a defender dangles a leg etc - is to stop defenders getting away with constant fouling in the first place. It really is as simple as that. As for what Henry did against Wigan. Or Vieira did at Anfield. Or Cole did in the 4-2 slaughter. Or Pires, Reyes, Toure, Lehman, Dixon, Keown etc etc etc have been doing for the last decade? Well stopping that might be a little harder. They have a little man with a lot to prove as manager, after all.
Fines would not work, because the club shouldn't get fined, because it's not really their fault, it's the player's fault. For example, fining the highest paid Premiership players (currently Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko of Chelsea) £130,000 would only be one week's wages for them, but fining a League 2 (no disrespect to the division's clubs or players is intended) player the same amount would be about a year's salary, so the only way to fine players would be to fine them at least a month's wages. Five-match bans (increasing by five matches each time the player repeats the offence) might work though. Do you agree with this idea?
<div class="quote_poster">Kenny_Red Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Show replays at Half time</div> Yeah name and shame them at half time and full time. Also ban players for a couple games for obvious dives.
<div class="quote_poster">dan Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Fines would not work, because the club shouldn't get fined, because it's not really their fault, it's the player's fault. Do you agree with this idea?</div> Ofcourse it is.. There are certain managers in the premiership who will not tolerate it. Steve Coppell for example
