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Excellent to see that the Scottish FA have brought in video evidence so that players can be punished for diving aka simulation. For me it's the biggest turnoff when watching football these days - and forget trying to watch a game of football between two foreign teams. I do blame the influx of foreign players into the premiership as being the root cause of the problem here. It seems to be the done thing on the continent that cheating is just part of the game.

I've said for a long time this should be done and it's great to see Scotland leading the way. I just hope they stamp on it straight away, the best form of prevention will be deterring the players from doing it in the first place. I hope it is successful and does get introduced in the premiership and further afield as soon as possible.

It would be great to see this expanded so that video evidence could also be used to punish other offences that go unnoticed. Barely a premiership weekend will go by without having to hear of some scandalous off the ball incident taking place that ought to punished retrospectively but unless the referee sees it at the time or it's mentioned in his report then it's ignored. It would be nice to clean the game up of the likes of El-Hadji Diouf to name but one!

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Posted by Alexander on Wednesday, 8 August 2007 at 16:32 | Permalink