Football Association has approved a plan<\/a> to bring about match bans for players caught for deliberate diving. The plan was supported by the EFL, the Professional Footballers’ Association, and the Premier League.<\/p>\nCertainly ‘diving’ has been a concern for a long time, and is one with mounting pressure heaped on the FA and other governing bodies to take a hard stance to help to eradicate the problem. Recent incidents in high profile matches including Harry Kane and Marcus Rashford have brought the problem to a fever pitch.<\/p>\n
As FIFA has adopted a more technologically-friendly direction, their willingness to show some change might open the door to adopting a similar policy at the international level.<\/p>\n
The statement from the FA reads as follows;<\/strong><\/p>\n“A new offence of \u2018Successful Deception of a Match Official\u2019 will be in force from the start of the 2017-18 season, after the regulation change was approved by The FA Council today [18 May] and following a period of consultation with stakeholders over the past few months.<\/em><\/p>\nWhere there is clear and overwhelming evidence to suggest a match official has been deceived by an act of simulation, and as a direct result, the offending player\u2019s team has been awarded a penalty and\/or an opposing player has been dismissed, The FA will be able to act retrospectively under its Fast Track system.<\/em><\/p>\nIn accepted and\/or proven cases of simulation and\/or feigning injury, the offending player would receive a two-match suspension.”<\/em><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vIOOReo_b2A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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