No, sorry, just watched it back on Sky Plus.

He dives and commentators say it looked a penalty but reply’s show it’s a dive.

Don’t want to argue about it, just pointing out we’re all as bad as each other. The way to be sure of winning is to do so without hoping for good officials. Because you will probably be disappointed!

Now here's Wright, his first chance to see what he can do, and he's through, it's Wright, ohhhh what an impact by the substitute. And it's Ian Wright who's sent the Palace fans into ecstasy!

It was a dive all day long, but whatever comes out of it, it does not help us now. I hope the ref gets down graded because it was a shocker of a decision and he had a great view of it too...

The look on Cabaye's face told the whole story..

Murray himself did enough to get red carded in one go in that match.

See the Everton match ref thread for a summary of ref cockups in the weekend's ten Premier League matches, three of which were refereed correctly, and in which two out of eight major calls were given correctly. Some people seem to think that's good enough. YMMV.

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Unfortuntely, there is such an ambiguity over diving and intent and someone genuinely jumping out of the way to avoid injury (which should still be a foul against the tackler, even if there wasn't contact IMHO) that retrospective punishment such as this will fail it's purpose. It may work as a deterrent, but what is worse? not punishing a dive sufficiently or punishing a club with a points deduction when the player did not dive ?
I think the only way is to get the decision right on the pitch. That's done by Video Refs. Yes, they will still get some decisions wrong for the same reasons, but at least the game is still going on - and the match will be affected by the decision.

Having said that, when someone comes out after the game and Admits to conning the ref (with or without Video refs) then they should be strung up and fired our of the nearest skyscraper.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

Niasse's antics have already been referred to the diving panel and apparently they will rule within 24 hours.

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Of course he's already given an interview in which he suggested that a) he did it and b) why the f*** shouldn't he, so hopefully they will make an example of the disgusting cheat. Don't hold your breath though.

I don't know if Palace are still interested in the "player" or if he's still interested in us, but if the latter were the case a nice presser to the effect that he and his agent are both now as welcome at Selhurst Park as an epidemic of Gandhi's Revenge in a submarine with blocked toilets would be quite amusing.

Edited by chateauferret (21 Nov 2017 11.07am)

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Been charged Act of simulation.

Palace 13th 2017/18.