CRYSTAL PALACE BOSS Sam Allardyce has slammed the new rule that will allow the FA to retrospectively punish players for simulation next season, describing it as “utter rubbish”.
Following a ruling by the FA Council, a panel of one ex-match official, one former manager and one ex-player will review footage and advise whether an offence has been committed, with a player charged in cases where the trio reach unanimous agreement.
Retrospective action can be taken when an alleged offence has been missed by the referee and resulted in a penalty, a red card or a second yellow card, with the punishment a two-match ban. But Allardyce thinks a huge limitation of the rule is that players wrongly punished by a referee for diving offences do not get their incidents reviewed.
Asked for his view on the law, Allardyce told reporters: “Well it is utter rubbish because what about the lad that gets booked that didn’t dive?
What are you going to do with that? Are they going to say, ‘Oh that is unlucky, next time we will try and get that right?’
“So the lad that dives gets punished. But the lad that gets punished by the referee when he didn’t dive – you are going to have to reverse that somehow.”
Allardyce then offered an alternative suggestion about how to deal with the issue of diving.
“Bring technology in and we can look at it on the day. Then bring a sin bin in so we can put him in the sin bin for 10 minutes and then put him back on.
“Then we can stop paying all these people money for them to do rubbish situations in the game. That is utter rubbish.”
Best reaction I’ve ever seen to someone diving.Good man Sam
Big Sam talking sh!te again. How many players are booked for diving when they haven’t? U could probably count on one hand the number of times it happens all season. On the other hand, players are hitting the deck every few minutes looking to gain an advantage and rolling around the ground with some games becoming almost unwatchable. Easy know that himself and Fergie are good buddies. He nearly talks as much manure as Fergie did for years.
@James Quinn: Rodgers still remains king of spouting brown, although Rafa is back next season
Chelsea I think will be hit the most. Followed closely by Liverpool.
@Denis McGrath: I know United fans have been hiding behind a rock for a while but Suarez left Liverpool a few years ago.
Pint of wine for big Sam please
An ex-manager and an ex-player…..will result in same crap of “there was contact and he was entitled to go down” logic. It’s the soft frees, that don’t result in cards/penalty, when teams are under pressure that ruins it as a spectacle, so not punishing those divers is a problem. But maybe it will start to bring a shred of decency & honesty back!
@mmk: I imagine they will define criteria, no? Also if they leave players off too much they will be slated.
@Chris Finn: but sure the criteria is already in the rules isn’t it? How’s that working…infuriating! Problem I see is ex-player/mgr will already be in the mindset that contact nearly always means a free! Listen to Poll (is it?) on sky and he is talking about slightest contact so the ref got it right….. also a dive that doesn’t result in a pen or a card for the tackler can’t be reviewed meaning the buying a free crap will still go on. It’s a start & hopefully they’ll extend it to all dives.