As expected. If they took any action on this one it would set a precedent for the rest of the season and they'd end up reviewing dozens.
What is ridiculous is the fact it went to the panel in the first place. Contact was made between both players so it was never going to be judged as a dive. All these so called experts are continually proved wrong. What I find sad is because it happened against Arsenal it got major coverage. Had it happened to us it would have had a small footnote and glossed over quickly.
I think it was more a case of it happening on a live tv game HB1. I understand people's paranoia about it happening to us versus a bigger club etc, but that's just opinion, not fact. I think a more valid argument is did it go to the panel because it was the first case since the new panel was set up and they needed an early test case to justify their existence, and would it have been considered had this season been well underway and it had been, for example, the 20th such controversy.
The whole thing is a farce. The new panel review thing has created the hysteria, before it came in it would’ve been debated for 5 minutes and then forgotten. Was it a pen it or wasn’t it? ‘I’ve seen them given’ and ‘it was soft but there was contact’ would’ve been the buzz phrases and then we would’ve all moved on with our lives. Now a 50/50 penalty decision will have to have a secondary debate attached to it regarding wether the player dived or not. I agree with the new review thing, but everybody needs to accept that there are not two possible outcomes - penalty or dive. If a penalty divides opinion so much and creates so much debate it’s clearly not a dive, it’s simply just a dubious penalty.
Bit of an aside, but on a similar vein - when Fernandinho smashed his thunderbolt at the weekend, he was duly mobbed. One latecomer to the melee of City fans celebrating jumped into the bunch of players and caught Yaya Toure (I think) flush in the face with a forearm smash and he didn’t even flinch. Imagine if Charlie Adam or some other anonymous Stoke player had done this 5 mins previous in the middle of the park. Not saying it’s acceptable but players really need to understand how pathetic they look rolling around at the merest touch when 100’s of cameras catch your every move.
My god do you ever shut up? We get a dubious penalty, beat Arsenal and then our best player doesn't get a ban and YOU'RE STILL MOANING ABOUT SOMETHING? Do you know how the media world works? Arsenal bigger fan base = more coverage. If it was West Brom vs Stoke and Rondon dived obviously less people will care. It's quite simple, just quit bitching.
Guess we all know why Poll, Gallagher and Hackett are no longer refs and thank goodness for that. At least justice has been done and we can all move on. Personally there was so much contact that I think Bellerin was just trying to get into Richarlison shorts and try to cop a feel, the little perv.
Really not trying to be paranoid but the hysteria in the press over the last couple of days brings to mind the over reaction in certain sections of the press a few months ago about the HSBC letter and the concerns about a possible points deduction. In other words, if we can find a way to whip up a frenzy or a witch hunt against Watford, then we will.
But it's not just a penalty or a dive is it. You can also have an accidental contact in the box such as Walker's kung-fu style high kick that felled Chalobah!! This 'diving' panel is not the answer. I'd much rather have VAR available for the officials to verify key decisions on the pitch. Won't always get things right but much better than any post match retrospective review.
I'm neither astounded nor relieved. There was never any serious question of Richarlison being found guilty of simulation where his judges could be held accountable for the decision. Unlike former referees and the press who can say what they like without fear of serious retort. It has been a very interesting subject to discuss though. Edit: I take it that no further action includes not referring it to the panel (that is, the panel were not involved in any way), otherwise it would have produced a report to explain its decision and the breakdown of the panel's thoughts, as per other such bodies within the FA. Please let me know when it turns out I am wrong...
Utter rubbish. Utter, utter, rubbish. Utter, utter, utter, rubbish! This is breathtaking! The ponce is the one living off immoral earnings.. or an effeminate man.
Perfectly summed up. It's bizarre why this is the one incident that was reviewed. The very first and only one. It was headlines on the back of at least one national newspaper this morning as well. I would like to know what triggers a review. Is it because a big name manager moans about it and the media jump on the back of that. Really, how goes it work. Who decides what gets reviewed and for what reason.
Dermomt Gallagher didn't think it was a dive so that is 2 refs who did and 3 that didn't.. http://www.skysports.com/football/n...pe-retrospective-action-says-dermot-gallagher Just shows how inconclusive the incident was!
Unless you have an official source no one has actually confirmed it has been through the review process.
The BBC said that it was the first of this type of review in the Premier League, there has already been reviews this season in the EFL but they didn't elaborate.
Very glad the correct decision/outcome has been reached (whether it was the panel or just the FA deciding it wasn't even worth a review). As mentioned numerous times throughout this thread - the overreaction to the whole incident has been simply bizarre. Still don't like Dermot Gallagher's comments that state "slight clip/little nick" - when you're running at a speed that beats the league's fastest player, and there's four seperate points of contact on you (see pics earlier in thread) - you don't need to be clattered to lose your balance. Clattenburg's comparision to a 110m hurdler touching the hurdle and going flying was a very good comparison. To blame for the whole scenario - Wenger, in order to take the spotlight off of another failure by himself; And Graham Poll for stirring it up on the live broadcast. Upon the news of no further action being taken, Graham Poll said on Talksport "I think it's wrong and that the new law is too weak". The arrogance of the man is unparalleled. No ban for Richarlison, but I fear that he's going to be labelled - unfairly - as a diver from now on. Especially harsh when we all know that he gets stuck in and takes a battering every game. The difference between him, Zaha and Knockaert is wider than night and day.
You set up a new iniatitive. Obviously you’re dying to give it a go to show the footballing world. We just happened to be the first incident that came along in a live tv match. The commentators on BT were already talking about the possibility of it going to the panel while the match was still going on, and before any post-match whinging from Arsenal. Silva himself admitted it was a marginal call. My feeling was it was a 25% penalty. For us and we’re dead chuffed, against us and we’re outraged. I can see why it went to the panel but they agreed with most of us on here and some refs etc that there was contact and it wasn’t a blatant cheating dive. That’s the point of the panel and it did it’s job. As I posted elsewhere on here, I’m just happy we now have players happy to run into the box at speed with the ball. What a difference they can make. As B Happy Not B Sad put it, you can’t win the raffle without buying a ticket.
So three ex referees One - def penalty One - no penalty but not diving One - def diving My point of view , soft penalty but no dive , look at the speed he is picking up, any contact is going to send him flying. I think probably visually made worse by the 2 hands stretched out slide across the ground. End of the day Wenger was probably just pissed that our dodgy signing from Brazil was making most of his team look 2nd rate. However I do think he needs to stay on his feet a bit more , especially now as some teams are going to be looking to get him sent off.
Wenger should be pleased Richardlison is not banned as it makes us stronger against Chelsea one of their supposedly top 6 rivals.
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sp...ws/15599077.Richarlison_avoids_FA_punishment/ http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...Watford-Richarlison-diving-ban-Premier-League http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-escape-punishment-FA-s-new-diving-panel.html http://www.skysports.com/football/n...-action-over-penalty-incident-against-arsenal http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41639158 http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co....e-suggestion/story-30530679-detail/story.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...on-escapes-retrospective-ban-fa-panel-clears/ http://www.teamtalk.com/news/fa-panel-pass-up-opportunity-to-punish-richarlison http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/watford-forward-richarlison-not-face-11350986 Been reported in many media sources. I think it's safe to say it was reviewed and he was cleared. Now you can wait for your official letter from the FA if you want, but that's good enough for me.
One very sound reason to moan about the synthetic, desperate BT-inspired brouhaha is that we'll struggle to get fair decisions for the rest of the season.
The media have a knack of all parroting one another with no actual on the record source at the centre of a story like this. But fair enough. As for how does a complaint to the panel get started, there's no published guideline. The media have the biggest influence. How many times do off the ball things get highlighted on MOTD and hen result in bans?
Really? I can see that might have been the case had this been left hanging, as might previously been the case. But now the panel has determined that there is no case to answer, I can't see why we would be worse off than any other team.
