2017/18 Oumar Niasse

[Goat]

Arm, chest and leg were in contact with Dann the grass.

He felt slight contact and he went down, it was a dive, you can point to contact all you want, the fact is that he deceived the Ref into giving a pen, its cheating and we have been rightly punished for it.

I mean when the Panorama story leaked you gave Moshiri hell for "dragging the clubs name down" and yet here you are defending a diving little snakerat.

SMFH

 

[Blues Harp]

The RS are playing Chelsea on Saturday........ Some top diving to be done there....

 

[Dutch Toffee]

No problem at all here that the FA are trying to clamp down on this sort of unsportsmanlike behaviour. Just wonder what the odds were for an Everton player being the first ever PL player being suspended for blatant diving/conning the referee, after all cheating seen over the years by the likes of Suarez, Gerrard and virtually all Chelsea players born after 1977?

Simply had to be like this, hadn't it?

 

[Khalekan]

Well, let’s hope Unsie makes the best of this.

Use it to tap into the feeling of outrage throughout Evertonia, except among the spirit of the law hipsters on here, and channel that outrage into a siege mentality within the squad.

Send them out on Sunday to do it for Oumar...

COYBB

 

[billyblue80]

Lost our goal threat for two matches. You can guarantee they won't be brave enough to enforce this for the top 6.

 

[Osamabindiesel]

The more I watch it the clumsier it looks by Dann. Guilty until proven innocent is the new standard, so you FA tits better be prepared to judge all by the same.

 

[YorkshireBlue877]

Well, let’s hope Unsie makes the best of this.

Use it to tap into the feeling of outrage throughout Evertonia, except among the spirit of the law hipsters on here, and channel that outrage into a siege mentality within the squad.

Send them out on Sunday to do it for Oumar...

COYBB

Ha! My outrage lies more with the punishment (should be the same as if the ref actually caught him diving) and the fact that many more egregious examples have occurred since the start of the season without any action being taken.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Willian done a much worse one which the prick Lineker has totally ignored on twitter.

Why are we accepting the ban btw? It's completely unlawful.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Because the penalty was given - and scored. Palace seriously disadvantaged. I guess they think that has to be seriously punished. The irony is that Palace will not benefit from the suspension, other teams will. It could be worse I suppose - what if the punishment was that any goals from an incorrectly awarded pen (from diving) was disallowed retrospectively, and any change to the result determining points from the match. If you think about it, that would be the fair outcome!

Know what you're saying mate, but at the end of the day it's all supposedly about getting diving out of footy, so IMO, also banning a player who has dived, but got a yellow card will make sure that that player won't do it again, because the yellow card is hardly a deterrent for him.

 

[marsh]

Bet theres a blatant dive by someone like Alli at the weekend aswell

 

[MACCA75]

Because the penalty was given - and scored. Palace seriously disadvantaged. I guess they think that has to be seriously punished. The irony is that Palace will not benefit from the suspension, other teams will. It could be worse I suppose - what if the punishment was that any goals from an incorrectly awarded pen (from diving) was disallowed retrospectively, and any change to the result determining points from the match. If you think about it, that would be the fair outcome!

Palace are actually getting punished again by Niasse being banned for our game against West Ham. Crazy rule.

 

[davek]

As I say, I disagree, and there will always be arguments on both sides with this kind of decision. For me a grown, professional athlete is not irresistibly forced to the ground because an arm grazes his chest. For me, on balance, a dive.

Just down to perception then isn't it?

So, in future, a player's weight and speed attributes and angle of contact he experiences will all have to be calculated to precision to determine if a fall to the ground is 'real' or 'simulated'.

It's an arbitrary piece of BS...and if I were a cynic I might suggest it's here because the FA are a bunch of stone age incompetents who want their many deviancies masked and overlooked by stuff like this which keeps the serf's from focussing on them.

 

[MACCA75]

Just adds to his cult hero status I guess.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

Willian just this evening has gone down very easily to win a penalty, the defender getting a red. Lampard described it as "slight simulation" lollollollol.

 

[YorkshireBlue877]

Just down to perception then isn't it?

So, in future, a player's weight and speed attributes and angle of contact he experiences will all have to be calculated to precision to determine if a fall to the ground is 'real' or 'simulated'.

It's an arbitrary piece of BS...and if I were a cynic I might suggest it's here because the FA are a bunch of stone age incompetents who want their many deviancies masked and overlooked by stuff like this which keeps the serf's from focussing on them.

Don’t know about that last part, but you’re spot on about perception - until we get rid of human input it will always be about what set of facts the Judge/jury/tribunal chair thinks is more likely to have been the case.