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Originally Posted by st06nc2
Of Blackpool complained the the FA panel would revue the footage and if found guilty of diving would be banned
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Last night it wouldn't have mattered but what if Hylton's penalty had won the match for Luton? That's the difficulty of retrospective refereeing. The cheater's team could still win. But if the incident can be reviewed immediately, the resulting penalty would not have been given.
Sam Allardyce is asking what happens, retrospectively, to to the player who gets booked for diving but was genuinely fouled. Perhaps they'll introduce an appeal process for every referee's decision. That'll suit much the media, of course, as it'll give them more to endlessly blather about.
What it reveals is the growing disparity between watching live football (played in the here and now, in real time, refereed by human beings with human imperfections) and watching what may as well be virtual football (played on a screen, in slow-motion, endlessly replayed, from ten different angles, 'refereed ' by 'experts' who can pontificate as if they have the wisdom of Solomon).