Arsene Wenger wants an independent panel established to hand out bans to 'obvious divers' retrospectively. A panel of former players ideally. Unsurprisingly, he disagreed with Jose Mourinho's contention that Chelsea were the victims of a campaign of scaremongering on diving.
I am against diving. We should punish after the game. The problem will be to decide when it was obvious diving or not. That is a big issue and sometimes it is not obvious,' said the Arsenal boss, who takes his side to Southampton on New Year's Day.
Yes (there should be a panel), and the most suited to this are people who have an experience in the game, and (then) to punish only obvious cases, but not mixed ones.
Naming (those guilty) alone doesn't work, you have to suspend the players. (How long should the ban be?) I don't know. It depends.
Wenger had previously been identified as an opponent of the principle of retrospective diving bans. After Eduardo was banned for two games after being charged with diving against Celtic in the Champions League
...the existing rules of football have been changed just for one case so we will from now on challenge every single decision that is made in Europe by the referees.
This is the first time since I've been in football that the judgement made by the referee is not accepted by the football bodies.
Wenger has now emerged as an unlikely foe of simulation, a fetish previously associated with old=fashioned English manager.
{Guardian}
