Spanish Refs want diving players fined & banned

Didn't really know if this should be a continuation of an existing topic....... Well..


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...a.html?ITO=1490

Spain's top ref calls for £30,000 fines and three-game bans for players who dive in penalty area
By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
Last updated at 5:04 PM on 06th November 2008

Spain's top referee wants players who dive fined £30,000 and banned for two or three matches.

Manuel Enrique Mejuto spoke out two days after many believed Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard exaggerated his fall which won the stoppage-time penalty he converted to give the Reds a 1-1 draw against Atletico Madrid.

Mejuto said: 'I am convinced that if we gave fines of £30,000 and two or three-game bans for diving in the penalty area it would make people think twice about it.

Fall or push? Steven Gerrard collapses to the ground in an aerial challenge with Atletico Madrid's Mariano Pernia before getting up to score from the spot at Anfield on Tuesday

'It is not a good time to be a referee. In Spain when you referee it can seem like you are in a war or robbing a bank. Players should not be allowed to cheat and that will only be stamped out with severe and immediate actions.'

Mejuto also refereed Liverpool's dramatic penalty shoot-out win over AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League Final, in which Gerrard won another disputed penalty that led to Liverpool's equalising goal.

In a war zone: AC Milan players Alessandro Nesta, Rino Gattuso and Cafu protest referee Mejuto's decision to award a penalty to Liverpool in the Champions League Final in Istanbul in 2005

Mejuto denied referees ever go out with an agenda against one team or player.

He said: 'When the international referees meet we never name or talk about a player or a team. I have never been given an order of any kind to hurt a club. It is ridiculous that anyone could create this kind of conspiracy.'
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It get boring to have people whine about Gerrard's & Liverpool's equalizer. We clearly out-played, out Classed and then equalized.

A fine + ban is a good deterrent for diving players. BUT what about referee who dont call it as it is. Surely that level of incompetence can not be allowed to continue too. Maybe a 30,000 pounds fine + 3 game ban too.